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January 5
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30th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 4.
Nativity Fast. |
 Monastic rule: cooked food, no oil.
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Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus (250).
St. Niphon, bishop of Constantia on Cyprus (4th c.). St. Paul, bishop of Neo-Caesarea (4th c.). St. Nahum of Ochrid, enlightener of the Bulgarians (910). St. Theoctistus, archbishop of Novgorod (1310).
New Hieromartyrs Paul (Kratirov), bishop of Starobelsk (1932), and Macarius (Mironov), hieromonk, of Zavidovskaya Gorka (Tver), and John (Smirnov), hieromonk, of Bolshoye Mikhailovskoye (Tver) (1937).
St. David of Echmiadzin in Armenia (693). St. Egbert of Rathmelsigi (Neth.) (729).
Repose of Eldress Eudocia Rodionova of Leushino, fool-for-Christ (1886).
Articles
 St. Paul the Bishop of NeocaesareaSaint Paul, Bishop of Neocaesarea, suffered under the emperor Licinius (311-324). |
 St Theoctistus the Archbishop of NovgorodSaint Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod, prior to becoming a bishop, was igumen of the Annunciation monastery near Novgorod. |