Orthodox saints and name days on January 29

Name days on January 29

Ignatios, Ignacio, Ignacy, Ignatius

Saints and feasts of January 29

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  Ignatios the God-Bearer

  Hierarch, Ιγνάτιος

  St. Ignatios the God-Bearer was Bishop of Antioch and one of the apostolic fathers, a disciple of the apostles themselves. Condemned under the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century, he was taken in bonds to Rome and given to the wild beasts in the arena, going to his death with joy, longing, as he wrote, to be ground as the wheat of God.

  Name days: Ignatios, Ignacio, Ignacy, Ignatius

• Demetrios of Chios

  Martyr, Δημήτριος ο Χιοπολίτης

  St. Demetrios was born in Chios and worked in Constantinople. Tradition relates that he was falsely accused of promising to become a Muslim, and that refusing to do so he was beheaded in 1802.

• Seven Martyrs of Samosata

  Martyr, Επτά Μάρτυρες εν Σαμοσάτοις

  Sts. Romanos, James, Philotheos, Hyperechios, Abibos, Julian and Paregorios were Christians of Samosata on the Euphrates who refused to take part in pagan sacrifices during the persecution of Maximian. After torture they were put to death by nails driven into their heads.

• Sarbelos and Bebaia

  Martyr, Σάρβηλος και Βεβαία

  St. Sarbelos was a pagan priest of Edessa who, together with his sister Bebaia, was converted to Christ by the bishop St. Barsimaios. In the persecution of Trajan the two confessed the faith and were put to death.

• Aphraates the Persian

  Venerable, Αφραάτης

  St. Aphraates was a Persian who came to Edessa and then to Antioch in the fourth century and lived as a hermit. He defended the Orthodox faith against the Arians in the reign of Valens, and tradition relates that he answered the emperor's rebuke with the boldness of a father of the Church.

• Andrei Rublev

  Venerable, Ανδρέας Ρουμπλιόβ

  St. Andrei Rublev was a monk of the Holy Trinity Lavra and of the Andronikov Monastery in Moscow in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the greatest of the Russian iconographers. His icon of the Holy Trinity is honored as the model of Orthodox iconography.

• Silvanos, Luke and Mokios

  Martyr, Σιλουανός, Λουκάς και Μώκιος

  St. Silvanos was Bishop of Emesa in Syria for forty years. In the persecution under Maximian he was arrested with his deacon Luke and the reader Mokios; after imprisonment the three were given to wild beasts in the amphitheater.