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August 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 26

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 25, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 12

Saints

  • Apostle Titus of the Seventy Disciples, first Bishop of Crete (1st century)
  • Saints Barses (378) and Eulogius (c. 386), Bishops of Edessa, and St. Protogenes, Bishop of Carrhae (c. 387), Confessors.
  • Saints John the Cappadocian (520), Epiphanius (535), and Gennadius Scholarius (c.1473), Patriarchs of Constantinople.
  • Saint Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople (552)
  • Saint John, Bishop of Karpathos (7th century)
  • Synaxis of Hierarchs of Crete, Bishops of Gortyna:
  • Cyril (c. 303); Eumenius (7th century); and Andrew of Crete, Archbishop (740).

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Geruntius of Italica, a missionary in Spain in the Apostolic Age, Bishop of Talco (Italica, near Seville) and martyr (c. 100)
  • Martyrs Eusebius, Pontian, Vincent and Peregrinus, in Rome (c. 192)
  • Saints Nemesius and Lucilla, a deacon, and his daughter martyred in Rome under Valerian (c. 260)
  • Saint Genesius of Rome (Genesius the Actor), an actor in Rome who took part in a satire on Orthodox baptism, was suddenly converted and martyred (c. 286 or c. 303)
  • Saint Genesius of Arles (Genès), martyr (303)
  • Saint Maginus (Magí), martyr (304)
  • Saint Marcian of Saignon, founder of the monastery of St Eusebius in Apt (485)
  • Saint Aredius of Limousin (Yrieix, Yriez), Gaul (591)
  • Saint Patricia of Naples, virgin (c. 665)
  • Saint Ebba the Elder, Abbess of Coldingham, Northumbria (683)
  • Saint Hunegund (c. 690)
  • Saint Warinus (Guarinus, Warren), son of St Sigrada, martyred in France by the tyrant Ebroin who was at war with his brother St Leodegarius (7th century)
  • Saint Gregory of Utrecht, Abbot of St. Martin Monastery in Utrecht (775)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

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    New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Moses (Kozhin), Hieromonk of Solovki Monastery (1931)
  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Moschansky, Priest (1938)

    • Other commemorations

  • Translation of the relics (580) of Apostle Bartholomew (1st century) from Anastasiopolis to Lipari.
  • Translation of the relics (580?) of Martyr Sabbas of Venethalon (Venetalus) (1st century)
  • Translation of the relics (c. 860) of St. Hilda of Whitby (680)
  • Repose of Abbess Magdalene of Sevsk Convent (1848)
  • Repose of Monk Benjamin of Valaam (1848)
  • Repose of Abbot Nikon (Vorobiev) of Gzhatsk (1963)

    • References

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