January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Feast of the Circumcision of Christ.

  Saints

• Martyr Theodotus, by the sword.
• Martyr Basil of Ancyra
• Saint Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder, bishop and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian
• Saint Emilia,
• Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
• Saint Theodosius of Tryglia, abbot

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Concordius of Spoleto
• Thirty soldier-martyrs in Rome, under Diocletian
• Saint Telemachus, hermit who came to Rome from the East and publicly protested against Pagan rites on New Year's Day, killed by gladiators in the Roman amphitheatre
• Saint Basil, Bishop of Aix en Provence
• Saint Eugendus, fourth Abbot of Condat Abbey in the Jura Mountains
• Saint Fanchea of Killeany, sister of St Enda of Aran
• Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa
• Saint Justin of Chieti, bishop of Chieti, Italy
• Saint Felix of Bourges, Bishop of Bourges
• Saint Connat, Abbess of Kildare Abbey in Ireland
• Saint Maelrhys, a saint on Bardsey Island in Wales
• Saint Clarus, Abbot of St. Marcellus Monastery in Vienne, Gaul
• Saint Cúan, Irish abbot, founder of many churches and monasteries in Ireland, lived to nearly 100
• Saint Peter of Atroa, Abbot, opponent of iconoclasm
• Saint William of Dijon, Italian monastic reformer and architect

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• New Martyr Peter of Tripolis in the Peloponnesus, at Temisi in Asia Minor
• Saint Athanasius, Bishop of Mohyliv, Wonderworker of Poltava

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Jeremiah Leonov
• New Hieromartyrs Platon, Bishop of Tallinn, Estonia, and with him protopresbyters Michael and Nicholas
• New Hieromartyrs :ru:Александр |Alexander, Archbishop of Samara;

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