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March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 26

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

For March 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 12.

Feasts

  • The Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.

    • Saints

  • Saint Dismas the Good Thief, crucified next to Christ (1st century)
  • Martyrs Pelagia, Theodosia, and Dula of Nicomedia, who suffered under Valentinian (361)
  • The Holy Martyr who was formerly an executioner.
  • Venerable Sennouphios the Standard-bearer, of Latomos Monastery in Thessalonica (9th century)
  • Venerable Timon the Hermit (10th century).

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Holy 262 Martyrs of Rome.
  • Saint Quirinus of Tegernsee (Quirinus of Rome), a martyr who suffered in Rome under Claudius II (c. 269)
  • Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium, Bishop in Pannonia (Hungary), martyred under Diocletian at Sirmium (Mitrovica) (304)
  • Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra, Bishop-Abbot of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe (653)
  • Saint Humbert of Maroilles, a disciple of St Amandus who helped found the monastery of Marolles in Belgium (c. 680)
  • Saint Hermenland (Hermeland, Herbland, Erblon), monk at Fontenelle, ordained priest and sent with twelve monks to establish a new monastery on the island of Aindre (Indret) in the estuary of the Loire (c. 720)
  • Saints Barontius and Desiderius (c. 725)
  • Saint Kennocha (Kyle, Enoch), nun at a convent in Fife, held in great veneration in Scotland, especially around Glasgow (1007)
  • Saint Ælfwold (Ælfwold II (Bishop of Sherborne)), a monk at Winchester who was chosen as Bishop of Sherborne in 1045 (1058)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Nicander, hermit, of Pskov (1581) (see also: September 24)
  • Venerable Parthenius of the Kiev Caves (1855)
  • Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947) (see also: March 24; April 7 - Greek; and the fifth Sunday of Great Lent)
  • Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia and Confessor of Traditional Orthodoxy (1979) (see also: June 1)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieroconfessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Greek Independence Day: Proclamation of Greek independence on March 25, 1821, blessed by Metropolitan Germanos III of Old Patras at the Monastery of Agia Lavra.

    • Icons

  • Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos the Burning Bush, on Mount Sinai (Our Lady of the Burning Bush).
  • Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos Evangelístria, kept at the monastery of Aliartos in Boeotia.
  • Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos of Kypera, kept at the monastery of the Panagia, on the island of Cephalonia.
  • "Annunciation" Icon of the Mother of God (16th century)

    • References

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