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May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 26

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Feasts

  • Third Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (c. 850)

    • Saints

  • Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others at Dorostolum (302)
  • Hieromartyr Therapont of Cyprus, bishop (300-305)
  • Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus (384)
  • Saint Dodo, prince of Georgia, monk of Gareji (596)
  • Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)
  • Martyr Celestine, in Rome.
  • Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)
  • Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)
  • Saint Leo of Troyes, monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550)
  • Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)
  • Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)
  • Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)
  • Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862)
  • Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881)
  • Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Skiota of Georgia (c. 13th century)
  • Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)
  • Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)
  • Saint Innocent archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857)
  • Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:
  • Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • Virgin-Martyr Helen Korobkova (1938)
  • Hieromartyr Tavrion Tolokontsevo (1939)

    • Other commemorations

  • Icon of the Mother of God "the Helper of the sinners" from Koretsk.
  • Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831)
  • Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (1836)
  • Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)
  • Commemoration of Protopresbyter John Labunsky of Nizhyn (1945)

    • References

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