The Emperor Theodosius:
I just took a look at a 12-volume Kievan menaion, reprinted in Moscow in 1996 by the Patriarchate of Moscow, that only shows St. Anthony the Great on January. Now, this means that he is the only saint that is commemorated LITURGICALLY on that day,
The official calendar of saints of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh shows the same:
metropolitancantorinstitute.org/liturgy/Calendar_of_Saints.html
This is the same calendar printed in the back of the priest’s liturgikon.
The Cantor Institute calendar that was linked above (for 2014) only shows Sundays and major feasts. But in the calendar of saints, and in the MCI monthly menaion for the Divine Liturgy, we DO often commemorate several saints on one day.
Finally, I would note that the Chrysostom Press translation of the Russian “Great Lives of the Saints” does not have anyone other than St. Anthony the Great on January 17, and that is a VERY extensive and traditional set of saints’ lives.
St. Gregory Palamas:
He is a 14th century (i.e. fairly late, for us saint, and one very much identified with controversy with Catholics. The official Greek Catholic Liturgical books through the middle of the 20th century tended to keep the older commemorations for the second Sunday of Lent. However, the (officially approved) typikon prepared annually by Fr. David Petras includes details for commemorating Gregory Palamas on that day.
Jeff
