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Святитель Филипп, митрополит Московский
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January 9 		Wednesday
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January 22
31st Week after Pentecost. Tone 5.
Fast Day.
Fish, wine and oil allowed.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомAfterfeast of the Theophany. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259). Совершается служба с полиелеемHieromartyr Philip, metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (1569).

Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Semeias) (10th c. b.c.). St. Peter, bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, brother of Sts. Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius, and Gregory of Nyssa, and Blessed Theosebia (4th c.). St. Eustratius the Wonderworker, of Tarsus (821). St. Jonah (Peter in schema), founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1902).

St. Adrian, abbot of Canterbury (710). New Martyr Parthena of Edessa in Macedonia (1375). Elder Bessarion of Agathonos (1991).

Articles

Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene, in Armenia

Saint Polyeuctus was the first martyr in the Armenian city of Meletine.

Translation of the relics of Hieromartyr Philip the Metropolitan of Moscow

After the martyric death of St Philip (January 9), his body was buried at the Otrocha monastery, in Tver. The monks of the Solovki monastery, where he was formerly igumen, in 1591 requested permission for the transfer of his relics to their monastery.

Hieromartyr Philip the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia

This was on November 8, 1568. In the middle of the service, the Oprichniki burst into the temple, they publicly read the council's sentence of condemnation, and then abused the saint.

Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia or Semeias)

The Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia) lived under King Solomon and his son Rehoboam.

St. Peter the Bishop of Sebaste, in Armenia

Saint Peter, Bishop of Sebaste, was a brother of Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory of Nyssa (January 1 and January 10). His older sister, Saint Macrina (July 19) played a large role in his upbringing.

St. Eustratius the Wonderworker

At twenty years of age he secretly left his parents’ home and settled in the Abgar monastery.
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