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January 28 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 January28 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (373)January 28 / February 10. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Σύρος. 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Ephraim the Syrian. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Palladius the Hermit of Antioch, Wonderworker (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Παλλάδιος . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Palladius the Hermit, of Antioch. OCA - Lives of the saints. The Holy Two Martyrs, mother and daughter, by the sword.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἁγίες Δύο Μάρτυρες Μητέρα καὶ Θυγατέρα . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Martyr Charita.Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Χάρις ἡ Μάρτυς . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh (7th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰσαὰκ ὁ Σύρος Ἐπίσκοπος Νινευΐ. 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable James the Ascetic, of Porphyreon (Porphyrianos) in Palestine.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ Ἀσκητὴς . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint George Ugryn the Martyr (1015), brother of Ephraim of NovotorzhokGreat Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Μάρτυρας . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Ephraim of Novotorzhok, Abbot and Wonderworker, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery (Novotorzhok) (1053)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐφραὶμ ὁ ἐκ Ρωσίας . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Ephraim the Wonderworker, Abbot of Novy Torg. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Flavian, a deputy-prefect of Rome, martyred in Civitavecchia in Italy under Diocletian (c. 304)January 28 . Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Valerius, Bishop of Saragossa in Spain, with whom Saint Vincent served as deacon (315) Saint Cannera (Cainder, Kinnera), Virgin recluse on the Isle of Inis Cathaig, Co. Clare and of Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland (c. 530) Saint John of Reomans (John of Reomay (Réomé)), in Gaul (544) Saints Brigid and Maura, daughters of a Scottish Chieftain, Martyrs in Picardy while on pilgrimage to Rome. Saint Antimus, one of the first Abbots of Brantôme in France (8th century) Saint Glastian, patron saint of Kinglassie in Fife in Scotland (830) Saint Odo of Beauvais, Bishop of Beauvais (880)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (c. 1098)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐφραὶμ ὁ ἐκ Κιέβου . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Saint Ephraim, Bishop of Pereyaslavl, Kiev Caves, Far Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Theodosius, founder of Totma Monastery, Vologda Oblast (1568)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος τῆς Τότμα . 28 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of Totma, Vologda. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saints Archilius and Luarsaab.Saints Archilius and Luarsaab. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

New martyrs and confessors New Hieroconfessor Theodore, Presbyter (1933)February 10 / January 28. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). New Hieroconfessor Arsenius Stadnitsky, Metropolitan of Tashkent and Turkestan (1936) New Hieromartyr Ignatius Sadkovsky, Bishop of Skopin (1938) New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pishchulin, Priest, at Simferopol (1938) New Hieromartyr Bartholomew (Ratnykh), Hieromonk, at Feodosia (Crimea) (1938) New Martyr Olga Vasilievna Evdokimova, in the gulag (1938) New Hieroconfessor Leontius Stasievich, Archimandrite of Jablechna, Poland, who reposed at Mikhailovsk (Ivanovo) (Russia) (1972)

Other commemorations "Sumorin Totma" Icon of the Mother of God (16th century)The Sumorin Totemsk Icon of the Mother of God . HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Totemsk-Sumorin Icon of the Mother of God. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

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Sources January 28 / February 10. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). February 10 / January 28. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). January 28. 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. 10–11. January 28. 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. 28–29. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 38. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 28 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 28 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 10 февраля (28 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 28 января (ст.ст.) 10 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).