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13 January

26 commemorations of 13 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 26 January of the civil calendar.

Feasts

Saints

  • Martyr Peter of Anium, at Hieropolis (Peter Apselamus at Eleutheropolis) (c. 309)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἀβεσαλαμίτηςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Hermylus (Hermilos) the Deacon and Stratonicus (Stratonikos), at Belgrade (315)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἕρμυλος καὶ Στρατόνικοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr AthanasiusὉ Ἅγιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
  • Martyrs Pachomius and Papyrinus in Greece, by drowningΟἱ Ἅγιοι Παχώμιος καὶ Παπυρίνος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
  • Saint Jacob (James), Bishop of Nisibis, the "Moses of Mesopotamia" (c. 350)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰάκωβοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Maximos Kavsokalyvites of Kavsokalyvia (Kafsokalyvia), Mount Athos (1354)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάξιμος ὁ Καυσοκαλυβίτηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Jeremias I (Jeremiah I), Patriarch of Constantinople (1546)oca.org · ec-patr.org · mystagogyresourcecenter.com
  • Saint Irenarchus (Irenarch) the Recluse of Rostov (1616)Ὁ Ὅσιος Εἰρήναρχος ὁ Ἔγκλειστοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Eleazar of Anzersk Island at Solovki (1656)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐλεάζαρος ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Joseph the Merciful, Metropolitan of Moldova (1902)pravoslavie.ru

Saints of the West before the Schism

Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.

  • Saint Potitus, a boy venerated as a martyr near Naples, Italy (c. 138 - 161)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Andrew, twelfth Bishop of Trier, Germany, sometimes listed as a martyr (235)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Forty soldier-martyrs of Rome, who suffered on the Via Lavicana, under Gallienus (262)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Agricius (Agrecius, Agritius), Bishop of Trier, Germany, took part in the Council of Arles in 314 (c. 333)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers (Pictavium) (368)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἱλάριος Ἐπίσκοπος Πικτώνωνsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Viventius, an eastern priest who travelled to the West and attached himself to Saint Hilary of Poitiers, ended his life as a hermit (c. 400)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Erbin (Ervan, Erbyn, Erme), King of Dumnonia (now Cornwall and Devon) and saint of Wales (c. 480)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Remigius, Apostle to the Franks (437–533), and Bishop of Rheims from 459Ὁ Ἅγιος Ρεμίγιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ρημῶνsynaxarion.gr
  • Saint Elian (Eilan, Allan), Missionary to Cornwall, England (6th century)oca.org · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Kentigern (Kentigern Mungo, Kentigern of Glasgow), Apostle of the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde and patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow (614)Ὁ Ἅγιος Κεντιγκέρνος Ἐπίσκοπος Γλασκόβηςsynaxarion.gr
  • Saint Enogatus, fifth successor of Saint Malo as Bishop of Aleth in Brittany (631)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Gumesindus and Servusdei, two martyrs, one a parish-priest, the other a monk, in Cordoba in Spain under Abderrahman II (852)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Berno, first Abbot of Cluny and initiator of the Cluniac reforms which spread across Europe (927)orthodoxengland.org.uk

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • Panagia Mesopanditissa (Mediator of All) Icon of the Mother of God, of Cretejohnsanidopoulos.com
  • Consecration of the monastery of the Prophet Elias - the so-called "Monastery of the Deep Stream" - in Triglia, Bithynia (10th century)saint.gr

The list is January 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.

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