Orthodox Calendar for January 2025

January 2025
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1 Nativity Fast Martyr Boniface and Righteous Aglaida	2 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Repose of St. John of Kronstadt Forefeast of Nativity Hieromartyr Ignatius the Godbearer Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908)	3 Nativity Fast Virgin Martyr Juliana and Companions Our Holy Father Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow (1326) Saint Procopius of Vyatka, Fool for Christ (1627)	4 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Saturday before Nativity Greatmartyr Anastasia and Companions
5 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 28th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday before Nativity Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete Our Venerable Father Paul, Archbishop of Neocaesarea (4th c.) Our Holy Father Nahum of Ochrid, Wonderworker and Enlightener of the Slavs (ca. 900)	6 Nativity Fast—Strict Fast Eve of Nativity Holy Virgin and Martyr Eugenia and her companions (ca. 190)	7 Nativity of Christ The Shepherds who saw the Lord The Veneration of the Magi	8 Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Hieromartyr Euthymius of Sardis The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family Our Holy Father Constantine of Synnada (7th c.)	9 Protomartyr Stephen Our Righteous Father Theodore the Branded, brother of St Theophanes the Hymnographer	10 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia The Twenty Thousand Martyrs burned to death in their church in Nicomedia (ca. 304). Our Holy Father Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh, Founder of Simonopetra Monastery, Mt Athos (1287)	11 Saturday after Nativity Holy Innocents Slain by Herod Our Venerable Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485)
12 29th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday after Nativity Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563)	13 Ven. Melania the Younger of Rome Our Holy Mother Melania the Younger of Rome (439) Saint Zoticus, Cherisher of the Poor and Servant of Lepers (4th c) St Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid (ca. 1126)	14 Circumcision of Our Lord; St Basil the Great Sunday before Theophany is read on this day St Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus (374), father of St Gregory the Theologian St Emilia (375), mother of Sts Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theosevia	15 Forefeast of Theophany Repose of St Seraphim of Sarov St Sylvester, Pope of Rome (335) Venerable Juliana of Lazarevskoye (1604) Holy New Martyr George the Georgian (1770)	16 Forefeast of Theophany Prophet Malachi Holy Martyr Gordius of Caesarea (4th c.) Our Holy Mother Genevieve of Paris (ca. 502)	17 Royal Hours of Theophany Forefeast of Theophany Synaxis of Seventy Apostles The Ethiopian Eunuch of Queen Candace Venerable Apollinaria (5th c.)	18 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Saturday before Theophany – Eve of Theophany Holy Martyrs Theopemptus and Theonas (ca. 290) Our Venerable Mother Syncletike (4th c.)
19 30th Sunday after Pentecost Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ	20 Synaxis of St John the Baptist New Martyr Athanasius of Attalia (1700) Our Venerable Father Cedd, Bishop of Essex and Abbot of Lastingham (664)	21 Ven. George the Chozebite Our Venerable Mother Domnica (Domnina) (ca. 474) Saint Atticus, Patriarch of Constantinople (425) Saint Severinus (482)	22 Fast Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow Saint Peter II, Bishop of Sebaste (4th c.) Venerable Eustratius the Wonderworker (9th c.) Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow (1569)	23 St Gregory of Nyssa St Theophan the Recluse Our Holy Father Theophan the Recluse (1894)	24 Fast Ven. Theodosius the Great The Venerable Vitalis (5th c.) Venerable Michael of Klops, Fool for Christ (1456)	25 Saturday after Theophany St Sava, Archbishop of Serbia Holy Martyr Tatiana (ca. 230) Venerable Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth (689-690)
26 31st Sunday after Pentecost Sunday after Theophany Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus Our Holy Father Maximos Kavsokalybites (the Hut-burner) (1365) Our Holy Father Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers (369)	27 Leavetaking of Theophany St Nino of Georgia Our Holy Father Sava (Sabbas), Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia (1236) The Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu (4th – 5th c.)	28 Ven. Paul of Thebes and John Calabytes Saint Ita of Kileedy, Ireland (570)	29 Fast Veneration of Chains of Apostle Peter	30 Ven. Godbearing Anthony the Great Pious Emperor Theodosius the Great (395) Our Holy Father Makarios (Kalogeras) of Patmos (1737)	31 Fast Ss Athanasius the Great and Cyril of Alexandria