January 28 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 10 by Orthodox Churches on the
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Saints

* Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (373)January 28 / February 10
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
* Venerable Palladius the Hermit of Antioch,
Wonderworker Thaumaturgy () is the practical application of magic to effect change in the physical world. Historically, thaumaturgy has been associated with the manipulation of natural forces, the creation of wonders, and the performance of magical feats t ...
(4th century) * The Holy Two Martyrs, mother and daughter, by the sword. * Martyr Charita. * Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh (7th century) * Venerable James the Ascetic, of Porphyreon (''Porphyrianos'') in Palestine. * Saint George Ugryn the Martyr (1015), brother of Ephraim of Novotorzhok * Venerable Ephraim of Novotorzhok, Abbot and
Wonderworker Thaumaturgy () is the practical application of magic to effect change in the physical world. Historically, thaumaturgy has been associated with the manipulation of natural forces, the creation of wonders, and the performance of magical feats t ...
, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery (Novotorzhok) (1053)


Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Flavian, a deputy-prefect of Rome, martyred in Civitavecchia in Italy under Diocletian (ca. 304)January 28
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* Saint
Valerius The gens Valeria was a patrician family at ancient Rome, prominent from the very beginning of the Republic to the latest period of the Empire. Publius Valerius Poplicola was one of the consuls in 509 BC, the year that saw the overthrow of the ...
, Bishop of Saragossa in Spain, with whom St 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 (ca. 530) * Saint John of Reomans (''John of Reomay (Réomé)''), in
Gaul Gaul () was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Roman people, Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy. It covered an area of . Ac ...
(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 (ca. 1098) * Venerable Theodosius, founder of Totma Monastery (Vologda) (1568)


New martyrs and confessors

* Saint Theodore, presbyter, Confessor (1933)February 10 / January 28
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
* New Hiero-confessor 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) * Olga Vasilievna Evdokimova, martyr, in the gulag (1938) * New Hiero-confessor Archimandrite Leontius (Stasevich) of Jablechna (Poland), who reposed at Mikhailovsk (Ivanovo) (Russia) (1972)


Other commemorations

* "Sumorin
Totma Totma () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Totemsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Sukhona River at its confluence with the Pesya Denga River, Pesya Denga, no ...
" Icon of the Mother of God (16th century)
Icon of the Mother of God of Sumorin-Totem
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.


Icon gallery

File:Saint Ephraimof bishop of Pereyeslav.jpg, Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl.


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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.

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 *

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). {{DEFAULTSORT:January 28 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) January in the Eastern Orthodox calendar