January 16

January 16  Fast Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Holy and All-glorious Apostle Peter. Bl. Maxim of Tot’ma, Fool-for-Christ (Vologdá—1650). Martyrs Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus, brothers, their grandmother, Leonilla, and with them Neon, Turbo, and the woman, Jonilla (Vovilla), in Cappadocia (161-180). Martyr Danax the Reader, in Macedonia (2nd c.). St. Honoratus, Archbishop of Arles and founder of the Abbey of Lérins (429). Hieromartyr Damascene the New (Mt. Athos—1771).