May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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May 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 26
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
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)[1][2][3][4]
Saints
- Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others, at Dorostolum (302)[5][6]
- Hieromartyr Therapontus, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century)[1][5][7][8]
- Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk.[5][9][10] (see also: May 29)
- Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th century)[5][10][11] (see also: May 17)
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)[12][13][14][15]
- Martyr Celestine, in Rome, severely tortured with hot irons.[5][10][16]
- Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)[13][14][17]
- Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus, brothers martyred near Évreux, France (c. 384)[14][18][19]
- Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)[13][14][20]
- Saint Leo of Troyes (Saint-Lyé), monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550)[13][14][21]
- Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)[14][22]
- Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)[1][13][14][23][24]
- Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh Abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)[14][25]
- Venerable Bede the Confessor, Hieromonk of Wearmouth-Jarrow (735)[14] (see also: May 27 - East)
- Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the Monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862)[14]
- Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881)[14]
- Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936)[1][14]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Skiota of Georgia (c. 13th century)[26]
- Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)[27][note 2]
- Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)[28]
- Saint Thaddeus, Archimandrite, of Svatogorsk Monastery (1758)[1]
- Saint Innocent (Borisov), Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica[note 3] (1857)[1][5][29][30][note 4]
- Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:[5][31]
- Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
- Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831)[1][5]
- Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (Stratonicus in monasticism) (1836)[1][note 6]
- Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)[36]
Icon gallery
Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (Menologion of Basil II)
Icon of the Third Finding of the Head of John the Forerunner (Konetz, 19th century, Russia)
A portrait of Pope Saint Urban I.
Relics of Saint Dionysius, Bishop of Milan (Cathedral of Milan).
St. Stained glass window of St. Aldhelm, installed in St Aldhelm's Catholic Church, Malmesbury.
St. Gennadius of Astorga.
St. Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica.
Recluse George of Zadonsk, of the Zadonsk Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery.
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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"). - See: (in Russian): Дмитрий Андреевич. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- (in Greek) "Ἐπισκόπος Χερσῶνος καὶ πάσης Ταυρίδος."
- See: (in Russian) Иннокентий (Борисов). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- "...There were canonized victims of crime in the Piva region, whose villages from 6 to 12 June 1943, Nazi "Prince Eugen Division", which included a large number of ethnic Volks-Germans and Bosnian Ustashas, killed 1,290 innocent people, including 549 children and young people up to 20 years of age. Only in the village of Dola, on June 7, 1943, - 522 weak persons were shot, out of which 109 children under the age of 15. Dola village, as the largest execution place in this area, became a place of a universal remembrance of the Piva Martyrs. Their remembrance day will be the 7th of June."[35]
- See: (in Russian) Георгий Задонский. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).