July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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July 24 - Eastern Orthodox calendar - July 26
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 7 by Old Calendar.[note 1]
For July 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 12.
Saints
- The Dormition of the Righteous Anna, Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos.[1][2][3][4]
- The Holy Martyrs of Lyon: (c. 177)[1][3][5][6][note 2] (see also: June 2)
- Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon, Sanctus the Deacon, Maturus, Attalus, Blandina, Vettius, Epagathus, Biblis, Ponticus, Alexander, and those with them, at Lyon.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint James the Greater, the son of Zebedee and brother of St John the Evangelist (44)[14][15][16][note 4][note 5] (see also: April 30 - East)
- Saints Florentius and Felix, two soldiers martyred under Maximinius the Thracian at Furcona near Aquila in the south of Italy (235)[14][note 6][note 7]
- Martyr Cucuphas of Barcelona (Cucufate, Cugat, Guinefort, Qoqofas), a martyr of Spain (304)[6][14][18][note 8][note 9]
- Saint Nessan (Neasán), a convert of St Patrick of Ireland, he became Abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret, Mungret) in Wexford (5th century)[14][19]
- Saint Magnericus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (596)[14][note 10][note 11]
- Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), born in Beauvais in France, he became a hermit and later founded a monastery at Saint-Fuscien-aux-Bois (fr) (c. 600)[14]
- Saint Glodesinda of Metz, a nun in Metz in France, where she later became abbess (c. 608)[6][14][20][note 12]
- Saint Banthus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (7th century)[21] (see also: July 28)
- Saint Theodemir of Córdoba, a monk martyred in Córdoba in Spain under Abderrahman II (851)[6][14][note 13]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Macarius of Zheltovod and Unzha, Abbot and Wonderworker (1444)[1][3][6][22][23][24]
- Venerable Christopher of Solvychegodsk in Vologda, Abbot (1572)[1][6][24]
- Saint Gregory (Kallidis), Metropolitan of Thessalonica and of Heraclea (1925)[1][13][24] (see also: June 29)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Udintsev, Priest (1918)[24][25]
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Sakharov, Priest (1927)[24][25]
- New Hieromartyr Theodore Tonkovid, Priest of Lovets, Pskov (1942)[1][24]
- New Hieromartyrs Vukosav Milanovic and Rodoljub Samardzic, of Kulen Vakuf, Serbia (1941-1945)[1][24][26]
- Saint Iraida Tikhova, Confessor (1967)[24][25][27]
Other commemorations
Icon gallery
19th century mosaic icon in the Basilica of Fourvière: The Holy Martyrs of Lyon (in top register)
St. Eupraxia carrying heavy rocks as a penitential labor
Reliquary of St. James the Greater (Santiago de Compostela Cathedral).
The Martyrdom of St. Cucuphas
St Nessan's Abbey Church, Mungret, Limerick
Venerable Macarius of Unzha
St. Gregory (Kallidis), Metropolitan of Thessaloniki and of Heraclea
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Notes
- The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar"). - There were 48 victims at Lugdunum, half of them were of Greek origin, half Gallo-Roman.[7] The elderly Bishop Pothinus, first Bishop of Lugdunum, was beaten and scourged, and died shortly after in prison.
- The son of Zebedee and brother of St John the Evangelist, he was one of the Twelve and the first to be martyred (Acts 12,2) under King Herod Agrippa. By tradition he travelled as far as Spain and certainly relics of the Apostle were later enshrined in Compostella. Owing to this apostolic link, it became the most important places of pilgrimage in the West after Rome. St James is the patron-saint of Spain.
- "ST. JAMES the Apostle, brother of the blessed evangelist John, who was beheaded by Herod Agrippa about the feast of Easter. His sacred bones were on this day carried from Jerusalem to Spain, and placed in the remote province of Galicia, where they are devoutly honored by the far-famed piety of the inhabitants, and the frequent concourse of Christians, who visit them through piety and in fulfilment of their vows."[17]
- They belong to a group of eighty-three soldiers commemorated on July 24.
- Born in North Africa, he went to Spain and was martyred near Barcelona where the monastery of St Cugat del Valles was later founded. He is one of the most famous Spanish martyrs.
- He was a close friend of St Gregory of Tours and one of the most illustrious bishops of his time.
- She was betrothed to a courtier who was arrested on their wedding day and afterwards executed. She became a nun in Metz in France, where she later became abbess.