January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
January 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 9
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 26.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Saints
- Prophet Shemaiah
- Martyrs Julian and his wife, Basilissa, and with them Celsius and his mother, Marcionilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty prison guards, of Antinoe in Egypt
- Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia
- Venerable Elias the Hermit, Wonderworker of Egypt
- Hieromartyr Theophilus the Deacon, and Martyr Helladius, in Libya
- Saint Atticus, Patriarch of Constantinople Venerable Domnica the Righteous of Constantinople
- Venerable Agathon of Egypt, Monk
- Venerable Theodore of Constantinople, founder and abbot of the Monastery of Chora
- Venerable George the Chozebite, Abbot
- Saint Cyrus, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Martyr Abo of Tiflis, the Perfumer, of Baghdad, at Tbilisi, Georgia
- Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus
- Saint Gregory of Ochrid, Bishop of Moesia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Patiens, venerated as the fourth Bishop of Metz and patron-saint of that city
- Hieromartyr Lucian, and martyrs Maximian and Julian, in Beauvais in the north of France
- Saint Eugenian, Bishop of Autun, a staunch defender of Orthodoxy against Arianism, for which he was martyred
- Saint Severin, Bishop of Cologne
- Saint Severinus of Noricum, Monk of Göttweig Abbey, Apostle of Austria
- Saint Ergnad, born in Ulster in Ireland, she was made a nun by Saint Patrick
- Saint Maximus, Bishop of Pavia in Italy, he attended Councils in Rome under Pope Symmachus
- Saint Frodobert, a monk at Luxeuil in France, he founded the monastery of Moutier-la-Celle near Troyes, where he led a life of unceasing prayer and asceticism
- Saint Nathalan of Aberdeenshire
- Saint Erhard, Bishop of Regensburg, Bavaria
- Saint Albert of Cashel, English laborer in Ireland and Bavaria
- Holy Virgin Gudula, patroness of Brussels, Belgium
- Saint Pega of Peakirk, an anchoress in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and the sister of Saint Guthlac
- Saint Garibaldus, first Bishop of Regensburg
- Saint Æthelhelm, the first Bishop of Wells, and later Archbishop of Canterbury
- Saint Wulfsige III, a monk whom Saint Dunstan loved as a son, became Abbot of Westminster in 980, and Bishop of Sherborne in 993
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Gregory the Wonderworker of the Kiev Near Caves
- Venerable Gregory the Recluse of the Kiev Caves
- Venerable Macarius of Vatopedi on Mount Athos and Pantocratoros monastery in Constantinople, Abbot
- Saint Paisius of Uglich, Igumen of the Protection monastery, near Uglich
- Venerable Elder Isaiah of Valaam Monastery
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Isidore, Priest, and 72 companions at Yuriev, Estonia, slain by German Catholic Latins in
- New Hieromartyr Victor Usov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir, Priest
- Martyr Michael Novoselov
- New Hieromartyr Michael Rostov, Priest, confessor, of Yaroslavl-Rostov