11 Января 1969 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, January 11, 1969 (December 29, 1968 by the Julian calendar)
31^st Week after Pentecost, Tone five

Sviatki. Fast-free. Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ. The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem (1st c.). St. Marcellus, abbot of the monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485). New Hieromartyr Theodosius priests (1938) Virgin-martyrs Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia, Ephrosia, Agripina and Natalia (1942). St. Mark the Grave-digger of the Kiev Caves (11th c.). Sts. Theophilus and John of the Kiev Caves (11th-12th c.). St. Theophilus of Luga and Omutch (1412). St. Thaddeus, confessor, of the Studion (818). St. Benjamin, monk, of Nitria in Egypt (392). St. Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (4th c.). St. George, bishop of Nicomedia (9th c.). St. Trophimus, first bishop of Aries (3rd c.). St.Basiliscus the Hesychast of Siberia (1824). Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.