Orthodox saints and name days on January 14

Name days on January 14

Nina, Nino, Theodoulos, Theodulus

Saints and feasts of January 14

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  Nina

  Holy Woman, Νίνα

  St. Nina, Equal-to-the-Apostles, was a young woman of Cappadocia who in the fourth century brought the Gospel to the land of Georgia. Traveling there alone, she lived in simplicity and prayer, carrying a cross woven of vine branches, and through her preaching and her healings the king and queen came to believe, and the whole nation received holy baptism.

  Name days: Nina, Nino

• Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu

  Saint, Άγιοι Πατέρες Σινά και Ραϊθώ

  The Holy Fathers of Sinai and Raithu were monks living in the deserts around Mount Sinai and on the Red Sea coast who were slain in raids by nomadic tribes. Tradition relates that thirty-eight were killed at Sinai and thirty-three at Raithu in the fourth century, and that similar slaughters occurred again later.

• Sava of Serbia

  Hierarch, Σάββας Σερβίας

  St. Sava was a Serbian prince who fled to Mount Athos as a youth and became a monk. With his father, St. Symeon the Myrrh-streaming, he founded the Hilandar Monastery there, and in 1219 he became the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church.

• Theodoulos son of Nilus

  Venerable, Θεόδουλος

  St. Theodoulos was the son of St. Nilus the Ascetic. Living with his father among the monks of Sinai, he was carried off in a barbarian raid and later ransomed; tradition relates that he was afterwards ordained and lived in asceticism with his father.

  Name days: Theodoulos, Theodulus

• Stephen of Chenolakkos

  Venerable, Στέφανος Χηνολάκκου

  St. Stephen founded the Monastery of Chenolakkos in Bithynia near Chalcedon in the eighth century, after living as a monk in Palestine. He guided a large brotherhood in the ascetic life and reposed in peace.

• Platon of Estonia

  Hierarch, Πλάτων Εσθονίας

  St. Platon was consecrated Bishop of Reval in 1917, the first Estonian bishop of the Orthodox Church. In January 1919 he was arrested by the Bolsheviks in Tartu and shot together with priests and laypeople of the city.