Januer Nohacem Sogglem Santam

(Roman mosaic: St. Julianus (half-seen on the left), St. Marcianilla (center), & St. Basilissa. The boy is Marcianus & Marcianilla's son, St. Celsus, chained to St. Julian).

Primary Liturgical Feast: St. Adrian of Canterbury, a Cyrenian, abbot in England.

The 21 #HolyMartyrs of Africa Saints Artaxes, Epictetus, Felicitas, Felix, Fortunatus, Jucundus, Pictus, Quietus, Quinctus, Rusticus, Secundus, Sillus, Vincent, Vitalis & seven others.

The HolyMartyrs of Antinoe or of Antioch under Emperors Diocletianus & Maximianus & under the prefect Marcianus, Saints Julianus & Companions (Basilissa, his virgin wife, Anthony, a priest, Anastasius, whom Julian raised from the dead, Marcionilla & her young son, the boy Celsus, wife & son of the persecutor Marcianus, seven brothers, & many others, who were discovered sheltering from the Diocletianic persecution).

The HolyMartyrs of Dachau, Saints Joseph Pawlowski & Casimir Grelewski, murdered by Nazi Infidels, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope.

The HolyMartyrs of Dijon Saints Benignus & Paschasia, under Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

The HolyMartyrs of Seoul Saints Teresa Kim, Francis Yi Bo Hyeon, Martin In Eon Min & Agatha Yi, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope.

The HolyMartyrs of Smyrna Saints Vitalicus or Vitalis, bishop, Revocatus & Fortunatus, deacons.

The HolyMartyrs of Upper Egypt Saints Mehraela or Mohrael, a 12 year old girl, & her younger brother AmbaHor, (name corrupted to Abhor,) were seized for being Christians, most probably during the Diocletianic persecution, & put into a boat in the Nile, filled with venomous snakes & insects such as scorpions, & died after 3 days.

St. Anthony Fatati, bishop of Ancona.

St. Beorhtweald or Bercthwald, archbishop of Canterbury.

St. Eberhard or Everard, abbot of Schaftlarn, Germany. 

St. Ephrath, founder of the abbey of Abgaro on Mt. Olympus in Bithynia.

St. Foellan or Fillan, sometimes latinized as Felanus, Irish missionary along with his mother St. Kentigerna, founder-abbot of St. Andrew @ St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, as a Culdee congregation. It was reformed & re-established as an Augustinian monastery by St. Regulus, also called St. Rule, for which he was reckoned its 2nd founder. It was destroyed by the Chauvinists led by John Knox. Feast either Jan. 9 or Jan. 19.

St. Honorius of Buzançais, a merchant martyr. 

St. Julia della Rena, anchoress at the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel & St. James at Certaldo, Italy.

St. Marcellinus, bishop of Ancona.

St. Marciana, a child, a young girl tortured, abused & murdered in Mauritania Caesariensis under Diocletianus.

St. Mary Teresa of Jesus nee Alice LeClercq, cofounder, alongwith St. Peter Fourier, of the Congregation of Our Lady in 1598AD, dedicated to the education of girls, beatified by Pope Pius XII, May 4 of 1947AD. (Wikipedia)

St. Mauruntius, founder-abbot of Old St. Florent (Ste. Florent-le-Vieil), Anjou.

St. Peter of Sebaste in Armenia, bishop, brother of St. Basil the Great.

St. Philip Berruyer, nephew of St. William, archbishop of Bourges.

St. Richard, abbot of Floreffe in Wallonia. 

St. Wanning of Fecamp, cofounder of Fontenelle Abbey with its principal founder St. Wandrille. 

WRONGLY LISTED: The HolyMartyrs of Melitene in Roman Armenia Saints Nearchus & Polyeuctes, officers in the Roman Imperial Army's Legio XII Fulminata, feast day January 7.

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