Celebration: Who are celebrating today January 16, 2025

Today, Thursday (16.1.2025), according to the honors the memory of St. Dante the Reader. The names celebrated today, according to the celebration calendar, are as follows: DEPENDENCE Dan, Danai * St. Danax the Reader The Holy Witness Danax came from the city of Avlon, Illyric (i.e. Albania) and was a reader of that Church. When pagans once rushed into the Church, Saint took the sacred ecclesiastical vessels and relics, to rescue them and not fall into the hands of the infidels and desecrate them and preserve them in a place fort five miles from the city to the sea. But the unbelievers arrested him and pressed him in every way to sacrifice to God Dionysus. CORVERSE But Saint did not yield to pressure, but remained firm and firm in the Faith of Christ. Then the heathen cut off his upright head, and his honest relic, threw it into the sea. *There are other dates that celebrate this name.