Wednesday, 21 January 2026
8 January 2026 on the Old calendar
Liturgical colour: dark (strict fast)
Saints of the day
- Afterfeast of the Theophany
- Monk George Chozebite, Abbot (7th C)
- Venerable Domnica of Constantinople († c. 474)
- Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus († c. 815-820)
- Venerable Gregory of the Kiev Caves, the Wonderworker
- Venerable Gregory, Recluse of the Kiev Caves
- Hieromartyr Isidore the Presbyter and 72 others at Yuriev in Estonia († 1472)
- Сщмч. Виктора пресвитера (1937)
- Сщмч. Димитрия пресвитера (1938)
- Сщмч. Владимира пресвитера (1938)
- Мч. Михаила (1938)
- Св. Михаила исп., пресвитера (1941)
- Hieromartyr Carterius of Cæsarea in Cappadocia († 304)
- Martyrs Julian and his wife, Basilissa, and with them Marcianilla, her son Celsus, Anthony, Anastasius, and 7 children and 20 Soldiers at Antinoe in Egypt († 313)
- Martyr Theophilus the Deacon and Helladius
- Venerable Elias the Hermit of Egypt (5th C)
- Martyr Abo the Perfumer, of Baghdad and Tbilisi, Georgia († 790)
- Venerable Paisius the Abbot of Uglich († 1504)
Fasting
Strict fastPlant food without oil.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.