Orthodox saints and name days on January 24

Name days on January 24

Xenia, Ksenia, Xenya, Xeni, Xene, Neophytos, Neofytos

Saints and feasts of January 24

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  Xenia of Petersburg

  Holy Woman, Ξένη

  Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg lived in the eighteenth century. Widowed at twenty-six when her husband died suddenly, she gave away her possessions, put on his military coat, and took up the ascetic path of the fool-for-Christ, wandering the streets of the city for some forty-five years, praying at night in the fields and secretly helping the poor.

  Name days: Xenia, Ksenia, Xenya

• Xenia of Rome

  Holy Woman, Ξένη η Ρωμαία

  St. Xenia was born in Rome in the fifth century to a family of rank and was named Eusebia. Fleeing an arranged marriage with two of her maidservants, she took the name Xenia, meaning stranger, and settled at Mylasa in Caria, where she founded a convent and lived in great humility.

  Name days: Xenia, Xeni, Ksenia, Xene

• Neophytos the Recluse

  Venerable, Νεόφυτος ο Έγκλειστος

  St. Neophytos was born in Cyprus in 1134 and, after failing to reach the hermits of Mount Latros, carved a cell for himself in a cliff near Paphos, where he lived as a recluse for nearly fifty years. A community gathered around him, and he wrote many spiritual works.

  Name days: Neophytos, Neofytos

• Babylas of Sicily

  Martyr, Βαβύλας ο εν Σικελία

  St. Babylas was a priest who left his home in the East for Sicily, where he lived in asceticism with his disciples Timothy and Agapios and drew many to Christ. Tradition relates that pagans seized the three and put them to death.

• Philon of Karpasia

  Hierarch, Φίλων Καρπασίας

  St. Philon was a deacon whom St. Epiphanios of Cyprus ordained Bishop of Karpasia in the fourth century. He was granted the gift of miracles and wrote a commentary on the Song of Songs.

• Makedonios the Hermit

  Venerable, Μακεδόνιος

  St. Makedonios lived for many decades on the mountains of Syria in the fourth and fifth centuries, eating only barley and later a little bread, and was called the Barley-Eater. Tradition relates that he healed the sick and interceded for the people of Antioch after their revolt against the emperor.