Orthodox saints and name days on January 13

Name days on January 13

Hermylos, Hermil, Stratonikos, Stratonicus

Saints and feasts of January 13

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  Hermylos

  Martyr, Ερμύλος

  St. Hermylos was a deacon who suffered for Christ under the Emperor Licinius in the early fourth century, in the region of Singidunum, the city known today as Belgrade. Refusing to deny his Lord, he was tortured and finally drowned in the waters of the Danube, together with his friend the jailer Stratonikos, who confessed Christ after witnessing his endurance.

  Name days: Hermylos, Hermil

• Stratonikos the Martyr

  Martyr, Στρατόνικος

  St. Stratonikos was the jailer of St. Hermylos at Singidunum, present-day Belgrade, during the persecution of Licinius. Moved by the sufferings of the deacon, he confessed himself a Christian and was tortured with him; the two were drowned in the Danube.

  Name days: Stratonikos, Stratonicus

• Maximos Kavsokalyvites

  Venerable, Μάξιμος ο Καυσοκαλύβης

  St. Maximos was born in Lampsacus in the thirteenth century and became a monk on Mount Athos. He lived as a hermit, repeatedly burning his hut and moving on to avoid attachment, for which he was called Kavsokalyvites, the hut-burner; some took him for a fool until St. Gregory of Sinai recognized his holiness.

• James of Nisibis

  Hierarch, Ιάκωβος Νισίβεως

  St. James of Nisibis was a hermit who was made bishop of that city in the fourth century. He attended the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea and, tradition relates, delivered Nisibis from a Persian siege by his prayers. St. Ephrem the Syrian was his disciple.

• Jeremiah I of Constantinople

  Hierarch, Ιερεμίας Α΄

  St. Jeremiah I was Patriarch of Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. He defended the churches of the city against confiscation, traveled to Jerusalem and Sinai to strengthen the faithful, and reposed in 1546.

• Eirenarchos of Rostov

  Venerable, Ειρήναρχος ο Έγκλειστος

  St. Eirenarchos was a monk of the Boris and Gleb Monastery near Rostov in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who lived as a recluse in chains and strict asceticism. Tradition relates that he blessed Prince Pozharsky before the deliverance of Moscow in the Time of Troubles.

• Hilary of Poitiers

  Hierarch, Ιλάριος

  St. Hilary was Bishop of Poitiers in Gaul in the fourth century. A convert from paganism, he became the foremost defender of the divinity of Christ in the West, was exiled to Asia Minor by the Arian emperor Constantius, and there wrote his treatise on the Holy Trinity.