January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 8 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – January 10

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 27.

Feasts

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

Saints

 * Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Semeias), (III Kings 12:22), (10th century BC) (see also: January 8 - Greek)
 * Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259)
 * Martyr Antonina of Nicomedia, martyred at sea.
 * Martyr Lawrence, martyred in the arena, by the pagans.
 * Saint Peter of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (c. 395)
 * Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker, of Tarsus (821)
 * Venerable Basil and Gregory the Wonderworkers, uncles of Saint Eustratius (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Virgin-Martyr Paschasia, venerated from ancient times in Dijon in France (c. 178)
 * Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and seven other Companions - Twelve martyrs in North Africa, probably under Decian (c. 250)
 * Virgin-martyr Marciana of Mauretania, in Mauritania in North Africa (c. 303)
 * Saint Marcellinus of Ancona, Bishop of Ancona (566)
 * Saint Waningus (Vaneng), Benedictine abbot (c. 686)
 * Saint Maurontus (Maurontius, Mauruntius), founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France (c. 700)
 * Saint Adrian, Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's, in Canterbury (710)
 * Saint Brithwald (Brihtwald), a monk and then the Abbot of Reculver in Kent, and in 693 becoming the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury (731)
 * Saint Foellan (Foilan, Fillan), born in Ireland, he accompanied his mother, St Kentigerna, and his relative, St Comgan, to Scotland, where he lived as a monk (8th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Martyr Parthena of Edessa, in Macedonia (1375)
 * Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of all Russia (1569)
 * Saint Jonah (Miroshnichenko), (Peter in Schema), founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev, Wonderworker (1902)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Paul (Nikolsky), Priest (1943)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople (869)
 * Translation of the relics (903) of St. Judoc, hermit of Ponthieu.