January 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 7
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 24.Feasts
- The Holy Theophany of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ - Cross Procession with Great Blessing of Waters outdoors.
- Traditionally, the beginning of the season of house blessings with Holy Water.
Saints
- Venerable Evagrius, of Nitria
- Venerable-martyr George the Persian
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs of North-West Africa, burnt at the stake under Septimius Severus
- Virgin-martyr Macra, from Rheims in France, martyred in Fismes in Champagne before the persecution under Diocletian began
- Martyr Anastasius, a martyr in Syrmium in Pannonia, now Hungary
- Martyrs Anastasius, Jucundus, Florus, Florianus, Peter, Ratites, Tatia and Tilis, in Syrmium in Pannonia, now Hungary
- Saint Hywyn, probably a companion of St Cadfan on his return journey from Brittany to Cornwall and Wales; by tradition he founded Aberdaron in Gwynedd
- Saint Melanius, born in Brittany, he was Bishop of Rennes and succeeded in overcoming idolatry in his diocese
- Saint Edeyrn, born in Britain, he was hermit and the patron saint of a church in Brittany
- Saint Eigrad, a brother of St. Samson, he was a disciple of St Illtyd and founded a church in Anglesey in Wales
- Saint Schotin, a disciple of St David in Wales, lived as a hermit on Mt Mairge in Leix for many years
- Saint Merinus, a disciple of Dunawd at Bangor in Wales and venerated there and in Brittany
- Saint Peter of Canterbury, a monk from St Andrew's in Rome, he was one of the first missionaries sent to England
- Saint Diman, a monk with St Columba and afterwards Bishop of Connor in Ireland
- Venerable Wiltrudis, founded the convent of Bergen near Neuburg in Germany and herself became a nun and the first Abbess
- Saint Frederick of Arras, a monk at St Vanne and later St Vedast Abbey in Arras
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Martyr Assad the tailor
- New Hieromartyr Romanus, priest of Lacedemonia, at Constantinople, by the sword
- Saint Theophan the Recluse Bishop of Tambov
- Saint Laurence of Chernigov Convent, Wonderworker
- New Hieromartyr Archpriest Andrew Zimin, his wife Lydia, his mother-in-law Domnica, his two daughters and his servant Maria, of Ussurisk, Siberia
Other commemorations
- Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam
- Repose of Schemamonk Sergius , disciple of St. Herman of Alaska.
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