Orthodox saints and name days on January 26

Name days on January 26

Xenophon, Xenofon

Saints and feasts of January 26

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  Xenophon

  Venerable, Ξενοφών

  St. Xenophon was a devout and wealthy man of Constantinople in the sixth century, who with his wife Mary raised their two sons, Arkadios and John, in the fear of God. When the young men were shipwrecked on a voyage to their studies, each was saved without the other's knowledge, and each in gratitude took up the monastic life in the Holy Land.

  Name days: Xenophon, Xenofon

• Symeon the Ancient

  Venerable, Συμεών ο Παλαιός

  St. Symeon the Ancient lived as a hermit in a cave on Mount Amanus in Syria in the fourth century, and later founded a monastery there. Tradition relates that wild beasts served him and that he made a pilgrimage to Mount Sinai.

• Ammonas the Venerable

  Venerable, Αμμωνάς

  St. Ammonas was a disciple of St. Anthony the Great and, after the saint's repose, guided his disciples in the Egyptian desert. His letters on the spiritual life are preserved, and his sayings appear among those of the Desert Fathers.

• Clement of Sagmata

  Venerable, Κλήμης ο εν Σαγματίω

  St. Clement lived as an ascetic on Mount Sagmata in Boeotia, where the monastery of the Transfiguration was later established. Tradition relates that he lived on a pillar and drew disciples by his holiness; his relics are venerated at the monastery.

• Ananias, Peter and the Seven Soldiers

  Martyr, Ανανίας, Πέτρος και οι επτά στρατιώτες

  St. Ananias was a priest in Phoenicia during the persecution of Diocletian. Brought before the governor, he refused to sacrifice; tradition relates that his jailer Peter and seven soldiers believed in Christ at the sight of his sufferings and were drowned in the sea with him.

• David the Builder

  Saint, Δαυίδ ο Κτίτωρ

  St. David IV, called the Builder, was king of Georgia from 1089 to 1125. He freed his land from the Seljuk Turks, restored the churches and monasteries, founded the Gelati Monastery and academy, and was famed for his humility and his Hymns of Repentance.

• Translation of the Relics of Theodore the Studite

  Saint, Ανακομιδή Λειψάνων Θεοδώρου Στουδίτου

  St. Theodore the Studite, abbot of the Studion Monastery and confessor for the holy icons, died in exile in 826. In 844, after the restoration of the icons, his relics and those of his brother St. Joseph of Thessaloniki were solemnly returned to the Studion.