5 [Day of the week/cycle number] JANUARY 31 [days]:

NOTE: Month : Moon [or Lunar Month] :

1 2. Thu[rsday]. Tone 8 (dg). Fast of the Nativity. Calends and New Year. For the Russians and Latins, Feast of the Circumcision [literally: Economy/Dispensation] of Christ; for the Russians, also [St.] Barsegh the Patriarch [Basil the Great]. Birthday of H[is] I[mperial] H[ighness] Alēkʻsēy Alēkʻsandrovich and Elenē Pawlovna. 2 3. Fri[day]. Tone 7 (dz). [Day] of fasting. R[ussian]: [St.] Seghbestros the Patriarch [Sylvester of Rome]. L[atin]: [St.] Makar the Abbot [Macarius]. 3 4. Sat[urday]. Tone 8 (dg). Fast. [Commemoration of St.] Barsegh the Patriarch [Basil the Great], and of his brother Grigor of Nyssa [Gregory of Nyssa], Seghbestros Patriarch of Rome [Sylvester of Rome], and Abbot Epʻrem the Syrian [Ephrem the Syrian].