RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

January

Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer

20 December/2 January...

Holy Righteous Joseph the Betrothed - the first Sunday after the Nativity of Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

The first Sunday after the Nativity of Our Lord
St. Joseph the Betrothed was descended from the house of King David. From his first marriage, he had four sons and...

St. Basil the Great, archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia - Universal Teacher

1/14 January
Св.Василий Великий. Деталь иконостаса.Святитель Василий Великий - один из самых замечательных богословов Церкви. Его влияние на судьбы Церкви...

Righteous Juliana of Lazarevo

2/15 January
Righteous Juliana of Lazarevo and Murom displays an astonishing example of a selfless Russian Christian woman. She was the daughter of a nobleman,...

Holy Hierarch St. Sylvester, Pope of Rome

2 / 15 January
St. Sylvester, Pope of Rome (314 - 335) was born in Rome to two Christians, Rufinus and Justa. Soon after the child’s birth, his father reposed, and...

Martyr Abo who suggered at Tibileli (Tbilisi), Georgia

8/21 January
An Arab by descent, he lived in the eighth century in Bagdad and was a manufacturer of aromatic ointments. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he found...

Hieromartyr Philip, metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia

9/22 January
St Philip (born Theodore) was a descendant of the noble Kolichev boyars. Theodore was the first-born son of the boyar Stepan Ivanovitch and his God-...

St.Theophan the Recluse, bishop of Tambov

10 /23 January
Holy Hierarch Theophan - in the world, Georgi Vasilievitch Govorov - was born on January 10, 1815, in the village of Chernavskoye, Yeletsk District,...

St.Michael of Klops Monastery, fool-for-Christ (Novgorod)

11/24 January
St. Michael of Klops was of aristocratic [boyar] ancestry, and was a relative of great prince Dimitry Donskoy (1363-1389). He took upon himself the...

Holy Martyr St. Tatiana

12/25 January
St. Tatiana was the daughter of a wealthy Roman, who brought her up in the Christian faith. When Tatiana came of age, she grew indifferent to her...

St. Sava I, first archbishop of Serbia

12/25 January
Hierarch Sava has a significance for the whole Orthodox world, as have all the great saints. The heritage of Hierarch Sava of Serbia lives on...

February

Holy Hierarch Mark Eugenikos, Archbishop of Ephesus

19 January / 1 February
St. Mark was born ca. 1391-1392 in Constantinople. His parents belonged to a prominent family of considerable means. His father was a deacon...

St. Macarius of Alexandria

19 January / 1 February
The Saint was born in the year 295 in Alexandria. He was a merchant until the age of 40, when he received Holy Baptism and went off into the...

St. Maximus the Confessor

21 January/3 February
A mighty spiritual giant, who was broken by nothing and by no one, whose image does not fade with the ages, Venerable Maximus the Confessor is...

St. Paulinus the Merciful, bishop of Nola (+431)

23 January/5 February
By his 20s, this man, a son of a senator, a wealthy, gifted person with an outstanding education was already elected a senator, and then consul...

St. Xenia of Petersburg

24 January/6 February
Св. Ксения была женой полковника Андрея Федоровича Петрова, служившего придворным певчим. Двадцати шести лет Ксения овдовела и, казалось,...

New Hieromartyr Vladimir, metropolitan of Kiev

25 January/7 February
I fear no one and nothing.
I am ready to give up my life at any time for the
Church of Christ rather than to give Her enemies...

Hiero-confessor Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky)

January 29/February 11...

Righteous St. Alexis of Moscow (Metchev)

29 January /11 February (Synaxis of the New Martyrs),
9/22 June, 20 August/2 September (Saints of Moscow)
16/29 September (Translation of the Relics)

Equal-to-the-Apostles St. Nicholas of Japan

3/16 February
On August 1, 1836, in the village of Beryoza, Smolensk District, a son was born into the family of a poor deacon named Dimitry Kasatkin. The child was...