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January 15 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective January15 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints Venerable Martyr Pansophius of Alexandria (c. 250)January 15/January 28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Πανσόφιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Pansophius of Alexandria, the Martyr. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyrs Elpidios, Danax, and Helen.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐλπίδιος, Δάναξ καὶ Ἑλένη οἱ Μάρτυρες. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: January 16) Virgin Martyr Charitina of Amisus (c. 304) (see also: September 4, October 5) Venerable Paul of Thebes, Egypt (341)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ Θηβαῖος. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Paul of Thebes. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Holy 6 Monk-Martyrs of the Desert, who reposed peacefully.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἕξι Πατέρες. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: January 4) Saints Salome of Ujarma and Perozhavra of Sivnia, Georgia (c. 361)Saints Salome of Ujarma and Perozhavra of Sivnia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Isidore of Scété (died c. 390), Egyptian priest and desert ascetic. Venerable Alexander the Ever-Vigilant, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), at Gomon, in north-eastern Bithynia (c. 426-427)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀκοίμητος. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: February 23, July 3) Venerable John Calybite (Calabytes) "the Hut-Dweller" of Constantinople, Monk (c. 450)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Καλυβίτης ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν πτωχὸς. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable John Calabytes "the Hut-Dweller". OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints Virgin Martyr Secundina, scourged to death near Rome in the persecution of Decius (c. 250)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Σεκουνδίνη. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.January 15 . Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Martyr Ephysius of Sardinia (303) Saint Maximus, Bishop of Nola (c. 250) Virgin Martyrs Maura and Britta of Touraine, France (4th century) Saint Eugippius, ordained priest at Rome, was biographer of Saint Severinus of Noricum (535) Saint Íte of Killeedy (Ita, Ytha, Meda), Hermitess in Ireland and foster-mother of Saint Brendan (570)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Ἴτα ἐξ Ἰρλανδίας. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Saint Ita, Hermitess of Killeedy. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Maurus, disciple of Saint Benedict of Nursia (584) Saint Lleudadd (Laudatus), first Abbot of Bardsey Island, Wales (6th century) Saint Sawyl Penuchel, the father of Asaph of Wales (6th century) Saint Tarsicia of Rodez, an Anchoress who lived near Rodez, sister of St. Ferréol of Uzès (600) Saint Malard, Bishop of Chartres, present at the Council of Châlon-sur-Saône in 650 (c. 650) Saint Bonitus, Bishop of Clermont and Confessor, later a monk (c. 710) Saint Emebert, an early Bishop of Cambrai (c. 710) Saint Ceolwulf, King of Northumbria, encouraged monastic life (764) Saint Blaithmaic (Blathmac), an Abbot from Ireland, went to Scotland and was martyred by the Danes on the altar steps of the church of Iona (c. 823)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Venerable Prohor (Prochorus), Abbot in the Vranski Desert on the River Pčinja (Pchinja, Pshina), Bulgaria (10th-11th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Πρόχορος. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Saint Prochorus, Abbot in the Vranski Desert on the River Pshina in Bulgaria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: October 19) Venerable Gabriel, Founder of Lesnovo Monastery, Serbia-Bulgaria (980 or 11th or 12th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Γαβριήλ. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Gabriel, Founder of Lesnov Monastery in Bulgaria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Nectarius, Archbishop of Tobolsk (1667)

New martyrs and confessors New Hieromartyr Benjamin, Bishop of Romanov (1930)January 28 / January 15. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). New Hieromartyr Michael Samsonov, Priest (1942) 15 января (ст.ст.) 28 января 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

Other commemorations

Finding of the relics (1722) of Venerable Barlaam (Varlaam) of Keret Lake (Keretsky) near the White Sea (1589-1590)Saint Varlaam of Keretsky (+ 1590) Orthodox Christianity Then and Now - www.johnsanidopoulos.comSaint Barlaam of Keretsk. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Βαρλαάμ. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: November 6) Restoration (1998) of Saint Nektarios of Aegina as Metropolitan of Pentapolis.Saint Nektarios and the 15th of January. Orthodox Christianity Then and Now. January 15, 2015. (see also: November 9)

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Sources January 15/January 28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). January 28 / January 15. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). January 15. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). pp. 7–8. January 15. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 15–16. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 15 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 15 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 28 января (15 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 15 января (ст.ст.) 28 января 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).