January 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 22

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 8.

Saints

 * Martyrs Eugenios, Candidus, Valerianus, and Aquilas, at Trebizond (303)
 * Virgin-martyr Agnes of Rome (ca. 304)
 * Martyr Neophytus of Nicaea (305)
 * The Holy Four Martyrs of Tyre, by the sword.
 * Venerable Apollonios of the Thebaid, ascetic (4th century) (see also: March 31)
 * Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662)
 * Martyr Anastasius (662), disciple of St. Maximus the Confessor.
 * Saint Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662)
 * Martyrs Gabriel and Zionios, and companions, under the Bulgarian ruler Omurtag (ca. 814-831)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Publius, first Bishop of Malta and later Bishop of Athens, martyred under Trajan (ca. 112, or, ca. 161-180 )  (see also: March 13 in the East)
 * Saint Fructuosus, Bishop of Tarragoña in Spain, and Deacons Augurius and Eulogius (259)
 * Martyr Patroclus of Troyes, under Aurelian (ca. 270-275)
 * Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (496)
 * Saint Brigid (Briga), known as St Brigid of Kilbride, venerated around Lismore in Ireland (6th century)
 * Saint Lawdog (6th century)
 * Saint Vimin (Wynnin, Gwynnin), a Bishop in Scotland, said to have founded the monastery of Holywood (6th century)
 * Saint Meinrad of Einsiedeln, hermit, martyred by robbers (861)
 * Saint Maccallin (Macallan), Abbot of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache Abbey and Waulsort (978)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Neophytus of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (14th century) (see also: January 20).
 * Venerable Maximus the Greek of Russia (1556)
 * Venerable Timon, monk (desert-dweller) of Nadeyev and Kostroma (1840)
 * Saint George-John (Mkheidze) of Georgia (1960)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Elias Berezovsky, Priest of Alma-Ata (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of All the Martyred Saints, from Protomartyr Stephen up to the present.
 * Synaxis of the Church of Holy Peace (Saint Irene), by the Sea in Constantinople.

Icons

 * "Paramythia" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Vatopedi Mother of Consolation, Mother of God of Vatopedi), at Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (807)
 * Icon of the Mother of God "Stabbed" (Greek: "Esphagmeni." Slavonic: "Zaklannaya"), at Vatopedi monastery (14th century)
 * Icon of the Mother of God "Xenophon Hodigitria" (1730)