31 January
26 commemorations of 31 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 13 February of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyr Tryphaena of Cyzicus (1st century)Ἡ Ἁγία Τρύφαινα ἡ Μάρτυςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, and Papias, at Corinth (251 or 258)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Οὐϊκτωρίνος, Οὐΐκτωρ, Νικηφόρος, Κλαύδιος, Διόδωρος, Σαραπίνος καὶ Παπίας οἱ Μάρτυρες ἐν Κορίνθῳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cyrus and John, and Martyrs Athanasia and her daughters Theoctista, Theodota, and Eudoxia, at Canopus in Egypt (311)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κύρος καὶ Ἰωάννης οἱ Θαυματουργοί Ἀνάργυροι καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς Ἀθανασία, Θεοδότη, Θεοκτίστη καὶ Εὐδοξία οἱ Μάρτυρεςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Saturninus, Thyrsus and Victor, at AlexandriaΟἱ Ἅγιοι Σατουρνίνος, Θύρσος καὶ Βίκτωρ οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyrs Tharsicius, Zoticus, Cyriacus, and their companions, at AlexandariaΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ταρσίζιος, Ζωτικός, Κυριακὸς καὶ Σώκιος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Julius of Aegina (Julius of Novara), missionary priest to northern Italy (401)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰούλιος ὁ Πρεσβύτερος ἐξ Αἰγίνηςsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology
- Saint Athanasius, Bishop of Methone (ca. 880)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Nikita, recluse of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod (1108)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικήτας ἐκ Κιέβουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Pachomius, abbot of Keno Lake Monastery (1525)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Monk-martyr Elias (Ardunis) of Mount Athos and Kalamata (1686)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας ὁ Νέος Ὁσιομάρτυρας τοῦ Ἀρδούνηsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Arsenius the New, of Paros (1877)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ ἐν Πάρῳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · 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 Geminian of Modena, Deacon and later successor of the Bishop of Modena (348)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Marcella of Rome (410)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Madoes (Madianus), a saint who has left his name to a place in the Carse of Gowrie in Scotlandorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Áedan (Maedoc), first Bishop of Ferns in Co. Wexford in Ireland, where he also founded and became abbot of a monastery (626)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adamnan (Adomnán), born in Ireland, he became a monk at Coldingham Priory, now in Scotland (681)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wilgils, father of St Willibrord, born in Northumbria in England, he settled on the banks of the River Humber and lived as a hermit (c. 700)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bobinus, monk at Moutier-la-Celle. Later he became Bishop of Troyes (c. 766)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ulphia (Wulfia, Olfe, Wulfe), hermitess near Amiens in France (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eusebius, monk at St Gall in Switzerland and later lived as a hermit on Mount St Victor in the Vorarlberg (884)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint John Angelus, born in Venice in Italy, he became a monk at Pomposa (c. 1050)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.
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Koroniotissa or Dakryrroousis, at Lixouri, Cephalonia (1867)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Κορωνιωτίσσης ἢ Δακρυρροούσηςsynaxarion.gr
- Repose of Eugene Poselyanin (Pogozhev), spiritual writer (1931)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Elder Codratus (Condratus) of Karakalou monastery, Mount Athos (1940)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Stephen (Ignatenko) of Kislovodsk (1973)pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrdom of Paul (de Ballester-Convallier), Bishop of Nazianzus, in Mexico City (1984)santoriniac.org.mx
The list is January 31 (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.