January 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 4

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 16 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 21.

Feasts

 * Forefeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Saints

 * Holy Prophet Malachi (c. 400 BC)
 * Martyr Peter, in Avlona of Samaria, Palestine (311)
 * Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia, centurion, by the sword (c. 314)
 * Venerable Meliton of Beirut (537)
 * Venerable Peter of Atroa (Peter the Standard-Bearer) (837) (see also: September 13, January 1 - Western Rite)
 * Venerable Acacius the Wonderworker, of Mount Latros (Latmos), at the Megisti Lavra of the Theotokos of Myrsinon (c. 10th century)
 * Saint Thomais of Lesbos (10th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Hieromartyr Daniel of Padua, a Deacon who helped St Prosdocimus, the first Bishop of Padua in Italy (168)
 * Saint Anterus, Pope of Rome (236)  ( see also August 5 - Eastern Calendar)
 * Hieromartyr Florentius of Vienne, a martyred Bishop of Vienne in France (3rd century)
 * Venerable Genevieve of Paris (502)
 * Saint Fintan of Doon, a disciple of St Comgall at Bangor in Ireland; he is honoured as the patron-saint of Doon in Limerick where his holy well still exists (6th century)
 * Saint Finlugh of Derry (Finlag), a brother of St Fintan of Doon, he went to Scotland where he became one of St Columba's disciples; returning to Ireland, he became abbot of a monastery in County Londonderry (6th century)
 * Saint Blitmund, a monk at Bobbio Abbey in Italy (c. 660)
 * Saint Bertilia of Mareuil, anchoress (c. 687)
 * Saint Findlugan of Islay (Finlaggan, Fionn Lugain) (7th century)
 * Saint Wenog, an early saint in Wales.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Righteous Euthymius (Takaishvili) the Man of God, of Tbilisi (1953)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Schema-Hierodeacon Elder Panteleimon, founder of Kostychev Convent (1884)