January 3 is a church holiday. Church Orthodox holiday of January

Christmas (Filippov) fast from November 28 to January 6. Prefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

* Martyr Juliana and with her 500 husbands and 130 wives, victims in Nicomedia (304). *** St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker (1326). Blessed Princess Juliana Vyazemskaya (1406). Blessed Procopius of Vyatka, Christ for the Holy Fool (1627).
Martyr Themistocles (251). Saint Theophan, Bishop of Monemvasia. Hieromartyr Michael (Kiselyov) Archpriest, Perm (1918); Nikita (Pribytkov), Bishop of Belevsky (1938); Leonty the Deacon (1940).

Day of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker

Saint Metropolitan Peter was born in Volhynia into a pious family. IN young age he went to live in a monastery. After being ordained to the priesthood, with the blessing of his mentor, he retired from the monastery and founded a monastery in a secluded place on the banks of the river Rati. Here he became so famous for his deeds of piety that he became famous throughout Volhynia. In 1308, Patriarch Athanasius of Constantinople erected St. Peter to the Russian Metropolis. The First Hierarch experienced many difficulties during his administration. In the Russian Land suffering under the Tatar yoke, he asserted the true faith, called the warring princes to peace and unity. In 1325 St. Peter, at the request of John Kalita, transferred the metropolitan see from Vladimir to Moscow, which was of great importance for the entire Russian Land. The saint died in 1326. The outstanding church-state activity of St. Peter already gave grounds for his contemporaries to compare him with St. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. The main feat of St. Peter is the struggle for the unity of the Russian state and the blessing of Moscow as a collector of the Russian land.
In 1339, under St. Theognost, he was canonized as a saint. At the tomb of the saint, the princes kissed the cross as a sign of loyalty to the Grand Duke of Moscow. As a particularly revered patron of Moscow, the saint was called to witness in the drafting of state treaties. The Novgorodians, who had the right to choose their bishops at Hagia Sophia, after joining Moscow under John III, swore an oath to appoint their archbishops only at the tomb of St. Peter the Wonderworker. At the tomb of the saint, the Russian First Hierarchs were named and elected.

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January 3, 2018(December 21, 2017 according to the "old style" - church Julian calendar). Wednesday 31st week of Pentecost(thirty-first week after the feast of the Holy Trinity, Pentecost). Christmas (Filippov) post. According to the church monastic Charter, today only dry eating (bread, vegetables, fruits). Relaxations in fasting are possible, but it is important for church-going people to coordinate them with their confessor. In the Russian Orthodox Church today, many saints are commemorated, 10 of whom are known by name. Next, we will briefly talk about them.

Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia. Holy martyr began IVcentury who accepted torment and execution for firm faith in Christ and fidelity to His Church in 304 from Christmas. The daughter of a noble pagan, Saint Juliana secretly received Holy Baptism and refused to marry, deciding to devote herself to the service of the Lord. For this, she was beaten by her own father and sent to court.

During the long tortures of the martyr Juliana, many miracles happened: all her wounds quickly healed, and the saint herself received new strength. Seeing this, 500 men and 130 wives of the Gentiles believed in Christ, confessing the true faith. They were immediately executed, baptized with martyr's blood. After this, Saint Juliana herself received the crown of martyrdom.

Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia Wonderworker. This saint, born in middle of the thirteenth century from the Nativity of Christ in Western Russian Volhynia, became the first Moscow Saint, the real spiritual father of the emerging Third Rome.

IN 1308 Hegumen Peter was ordained Metropolitan of All Russia. In those years in Russia there was a struggle for the Grand Duke's throne, the saint acted as a conciliator in it, but in the end he sided with Prince Yuri of Moscow. IN 1315 Metropolitan Peter first arrived in Moscow, where he founded the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery and where he finally moved.

Moscow was spiritually born in the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery. As the capital city of the Russian Church, and, accordingly, the center of the entire Russian world. It is from here in XIV century the unification of Russia and its liberation from the Horde yoke began. And the role of St. Peter in this great work was fundamental.

Today the relics of St. Peter rest in the very heart of the Third Rome - in the Patriarchal Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. And every Orthodox Christian can bow to this ascetic and ask for his prayerful help.

You can read more about St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow, and his historical role in ours.

Martyr Themistocles of Myra. A simple shepherd from the Asia Minor World of Lycia, a city that later became famous for the archpastoral ministry of the greatest saint - St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Themistocles was a simple shepherd who received a martyr's crown for hiding a Christian named Dioscorides from persecution during the cruel anti-church persecution of the pagan emperor Decius, who reigned in the Roman Empire in 249-251 years from Christmas.

Holy Blessed Princess (Martyr) Juliana Vyazemskaya and Novotorzhskaya. The servant of God, who perished in 1406 from Christmas. Saint Juliana was the wife of Vyazemsky Prince Simeon Mstislavich during the years when his lands were captured by the Lithuanian prince Vitovt, who betrayed Orthodoxy in favor of Roman Catholicism.

When the saint and her husband were in exile in Torzhok, the local governor, Prince Yuri Svyatoslavich, was captivated by the beauty of Princess Juliana and began to harass her, but she, being a deeply believing Orthodox Christian, refused the seducer. Enraged, Yuri Svyatoslavich killed her husband, Simeon Mstislavich, and, after long tortures, Princess Juliana, from whose relics miracles and healings soon began to occur.

Blessed Procopius of Vyatka, fool for Christ's sake. This Russian saint at the age of 20, when his parents wanted to marry him, secretly went to the city of Khlynov, where he took upon himself the feat of foolishness - imaginary madness, coupled with Christian asceticism and the deepest prayerfulness. Saint Procopius openly denounced sins, receiving for this not only reverence, but also insults and even beatings. For this, the Lord glorified him with the gift of clairvoyance. Blessed Procopius passed away to the Lord in the 50th year of his earthly life in 1627 from Christmas.

Saint Philaret (in schema - Theodosius) (Amfiteatrov), Metropolitan of Kyiv. One of the most revered archpastors of the Russian Church XIXcentury. He became famous for his pious and ascetic life, secretly took tonsure into the great schema - the highest degree of monasticism in terms of asceticism and renunciation of the world. Unlike his younger contemporary, Saint Philaret (Drozdov), Metropolitan of Moscow, St. Philaret (Amfiteatrov) opposed the translation of Holy Scripture into modern Russian:

The Russian dialect cannot convey the Holy Scriptures with all the power and fidelity, which distinguishes the Slavic translation, in which everything that is necessary for the edification of the faithful to their eternal salvation is accessible to the concept. The need is not to translate the Bible into Russian, but to study diligently Slavic language in all our spiritual and secular schools and in daily diligent reading of the Holy Scriptures on it ...

Saint Philaret (Amfiteatrov) departed to the Lord December 21, 1857 (January 2, 1858) in Kyiv in the 79th year of his earthly life.

Hieromartyrs Mikhail Kiselev, presbyter (1918), Sergiy Tsvetkov, deacon (1937), Nikita (Pribytkov), Bishop of Belevsky (1938), Hieromartyr Leonty Strotsyuk, deacon (1940). All these holy martyrs in the hierarchal, priestly and diaconal ranks accepted death for their loyalty to Christ and His Church during the period of Soviet atheistic persecution. Each of them was glorified as a saint in the many thousands of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.

Congratulations to Orthodox Christians on the memory of all today's saints! By their prayers, Lord, save us and have mercy on us all! Those who, in the Sacrament of Holy Baptism or monastic vows, received names in their honor, are happy to congratulate them on their name day! As they said in Russia in the old days: "To the Guardian Angels - a golden crown, and to you - good health!"

Birthday straws for cocktails

This very unusual holiday is celebrated in the world at the very beginning of the new year - January 3rd. A simple uncomplicated device "straw" is a tube designed to draw various drinks, cocktails into the mouth. Initially, the straw was made from ordinary straw, which inside contained hollow stems of cereal crops - rye tubes. Hence the name of this device - "straw".

Remembrance Day of the Fighters of the War of Independence in Estonia

In Estonia, the entire Estonian people celebrates the Day of Remembrance of the fighters who died in the War of Independence for the liberation and independence of the state. This was the war of the Estonian people against Soviet Russia. It lasted from November 28, 1918 to January 3, 1920, when the Red Army, consisting of two divisions (12 thousand people), crossed the border and invaded the territory of Estonia.

Church holidays

MEMORY DAY OF ST. PETER, METROPOLITAN OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA, WONDER WORKER

- Orthodox holiday on January 3
Memorial Day of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
January 3 Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, a miracle worker who, one of the first Russian metropolitans, lived not in Vladimir or Kyiv, but in Moscow. Even during his lifetime, St. Peter's contemporaries put him on a par with the well-known saints John Chrysostom, Gregory the Theologian, and Basil the Great. After the death of Metropolitan Peter of Moscow, Russian chronicles often mentioned him. In the old days, not a single state undertaking was complete without a prayer at the tomb of St. Peter. Russian primates were named and elected there.
Folk holiday January 3

PROCLE DAY

The popular feast of January 3 was named after Proclus, a 5th-century saint who served as an archbishop in Constantinople.
Proclus is known for having studied theology with John Chrysostom himself and received from him a deep knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and also mastered oratory.
Proclus was famous for having witnessed the appearance of the Apostle Paul to Saint John.
Already after the death of his teacher, Proclus became a Bishop and in this rank exposed paganism and fervently preached Christianity. Proclus was also popularly known for his concern for the underprivileged.
Name day today: Leonty, Mikhail, Nikita, Peter, Sergei, Ulyana.

Unusual holidays

- Birthday straws for cocktails
- Day of Bengal sparks and garland lights.

January 3rd in history

- as a result of betrayal, Joan of Arc was sold to a representative of the church
- the signing of the Russian-Turkish treaty, thanks to which Turkey entered the anti-French coalition
- Patented cocktail straw
- there was a staging of the execution of the Petrashevites. Fyodor Dostoevsky and his comrades-in-arms were replaced with penal servitude
- the Krasnoyarsk Republic was defeated
- found the main treasure of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun: his stone sarcophagus, which turned out to be a golden coffin with a mummy
- in the USSR, an experiment was conducted to detect aircraft using a radar method
Alaska became the 49th state of the United States
- the last military unit in Cuba surrendered to the revolutionaries. The revolution finally won
- U.S. diplomatic relations with Cuba severed
- Fidel Castro excommunicated by the Pope
- signing of an arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States

Today January 3 (December 21, old style) - Church, Orthodox holiday today:

Christmas (Filippov) fast from November 28 to January 6. Prefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

Day of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker

Saint Metropolitan Peter was born in Volhynia into a pious family. At a young age he went to live in a monastery. After being ordained to the priesthood, with the blessing of his mentor, he retired from the monastery and founded a monastery in a secluded place on the banks of the river Rati. Here he became so famous for his deeds of piety that he became famous throughout Volhynia. In 1308, Patriarch Athanasius of Constantinople erected St. Peter to the Russian Metropolis. The First Hierarch experienced many difficulties during his administration. In the Russian Land suffering under the Tatar yoke, he asserted the true faith, called the warring princes to peace and unity. In 1325 St. Peter, at the request of John Kalita, transferred the metropolitan see from Vladimir to Moscow, which was of great importance for the entire Russian Land. The saint died in 1326. The outstanding church-state activity of St. Peter already gave grounds for his contemporaries to compare him with St. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. The main feat of St. Peter is the struggle for the unity of the Russian state and the blessing of Moscow as a collector of the Russian land.
In 1339, under St. Theognost, he was canonized as a saint. At the tomb of the saint, the princes kissed the cross as a sign of loyalty to the Grand Duke of Moscow. As a particularly revered patron of Moscow, the saint was called to witness in the drafting of state treaties. The Novgorodians, who had the right to choose their bishops at Hagia Sophia, after joining Moscow under John III, swore an oath to appoint their archbishops only at the tomb of St. Peter the Wonderworker. At the tomb of the saint, the Russian First Hierarchs were named and elected.

Other Orthodox holidays and Saints:

Cathedral of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John. January 20th. Orthodox church calendar
Venerable Martinian of Athens. Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-streaming. February 26th. Orthodox church calendar
Saint Gregory the Dialogist. Venerable Simeon the New Theologian. Venerable Confessor Theophan of Sigrian. March 25. Orthodox church calendar
Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Arethusia. Saints Jonah and Mark. Commemoration of the Monk Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Bithynia. April 11. Orthodox church calendar
Hieromartyr Timothy. Martyrs Alexander and Antonina. June 23rd. Orthodox church calendar
Saint Tikhon. Rev. Tikhon Lukhovsky. Martyrs Tigris the Presbyter and Eutropius the Reader. June 29. Orthodox church calendar
Hieromartyr Athenogenes. Martyr Virgin Julia. Icon of the Mother of God of Chir (Pskov). July 29. Orthodox church calendar

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