January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 30

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 11 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 16.

Saints

 * Martyr Chryse (ca. 41-54)
 * Martyrs Sarbelus (Thathuil) and his sister Bebaia, of Edessa (110)
 * Saint Barsimaeus the Confessor, Hieromartyr Bishop of Edessa (114)
 * The Holy Seven Martyrs of Samosata (297):
 * Martyrs Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian, and Paregorius, at Samosata.


 * Hieromartyrs Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa, Luke the Deacon, and Mocius the Reader (312)
 * Venerable Aphrahates the Persian, Hermit of Antioch (370)
 * Venerable Ascepsimus, monk.
 * Saint Ashot Kuropalates of Tao-Klarjeti, Georgia (829) (see also: January 27)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Caesarius, a deacon in Angoulême in France under its first bishop St Ausonius (1st century)
 * Hieromartyr Constantius of Perugia, first Bishop of Perugia, and Companions (170)
 * Martyr Sabinian of Troyes (275)
 * Martyrs Papias and Maurus, soldiers martyred in Rome under Maximian (ca. 303)
 * Saint Valerius, second Bishop of Trier in Germany (ca. 320)
 * Saint Blath (Flora), a cook at St Brigid's convent in Kildare where she was honoured as a holy woman (523)
 * Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot, of Rhuys, Brittany (ca. 570)
 * Saint Severus (Sulpitius I of Bourges, Sulpicius Severus), Bishop of Bourges (591)
 * Saint Dallán Forgaill (of Cluain Dallain), a relative of St Aidan of Ferns, born in Connaught, martyred at Inis-coel by pirates (598)
 * Saint Aquilinus of Mediolanum (Milan), martyred by the Arians (650)
 * Saint Voloc, a bishop from Ireland who worked in Scotland (ca. 724)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Ignatios the Sinaite, of Rethymno, Crete.
 * Venerable Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Turov (1194)
 * Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Smolensk (1210)
 * Saint Andrei Rublev, iconographer, of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery (Moscow) (1430)
 * Saints Gerasimus (1441), Pitirim (1455), and Jonah (1470), Bishops of Perm.
 * New Martyr Demetrius of Chios, at Constantinople (1802)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs John Granitov and Leontius Klimenko, Priests; Constantine Zverev, Deacon; and with them 5 Martyrs (1920)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics (5th century) of Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107)
 * Synaxis of All Saints of Yekaterinburg.