Venerable Domnina, an ascetic woman.
St. Domnina is commemorated on January 5 as a venerable woman who lived in asceticism and reposed in peace. The synaxaria preserve little beyond the record of her holy life.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Domnina the Venerable is commemorated on January 5. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on January 18 of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Also commemorated on January 5
Synkletike of Alexandria
Holy Woman, Συγκλητική
Venerable Synkletike, mother of women's monasticism in Egypt.
Name days: Synkletike, Synkletiki, Syncletica, Sygklitiki
Theonas the Martyr
Martyr, Θεωνάς
Holy Martyr Theonas, the magician converted by the Hieromartyr Theopemptos.
Name days: Theonas
Romanos of Karpenisi
Martyr, Ρωμανός ο Νέος
New Monk-Martyr Romanos, martyred in Constantinople in the seventeenth century.
Phosterios the Hermit
Venerable, Φωστήριος
Venerable Phosterios, a hermit who shone in the ascetic life.
Gregory of Akrita
Venerable, Γρηγόριος ο εν Ακρίτα
Venerable Gregory of Akrita, a monk of Crete and Constantinople.
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