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Today's feasts August 11 2022: Afterfeast of the Transfiguration; Archdeacon Euplus of Catania the Greatmartyr; Virgin-Martyr Susanna and those martyred with her: her uncle Gaius, Pope of Rome, his brother (her father) Presbyter Gavinius, Maximus (brother to the emperor Diocletian), Claudius (cousin to the emperor Diocletian), and his wife Praepedigna, with their sons Alexander and Cutias; Martyrs Basil and Theodore of the Kiev Caves; Saint Theodosius (Prince Theodore of Ostrog) of the Kiev Caves; Saint Passarion of Palestine; Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (Mount Athos); Martyrs Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius, and Gaianus; Saint Mary Syncletica; New-Martyrs Anastasios and Demetrios; Saint Blane, Bishop of Bute; Saint Taurinos, first Bishop of Evreux; Martyr Tiburtios of Rome. Other events: commemoration of the Miracle of Saint Spyridon on Kerkyra (Corfu) with the Hagarenes ( July 29 2022: Julian Calendar ) Martyr Callinicus of Asia Minor; Martyr Theodote and her Children; Saint Constantine, Patriarch of Constantinople; Saint Theodosius the New, emperor; Saint Roman, abbot of Kirzhach, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh; Saints Constantine and Cosmas, abbots of Kosinsk, Pskov; Martyr Eustace of Mtskhet in Georgia; Martyr Michael; Saint Lupus the Confessor, Bishop of Troyes; Martyrs Mamas and Vasilicos the Elder in Darii; Saint Bogolep, Schemamonk-child of Black Ravine near Astrakhan; Saint Olaf, Enlightener of Norway; Martyr Basiliscus the Elder; Martyrs Benjamin and Berius of Constantinople; Martyr Bessarion, Bishop of Smolyan; Saint Sulian, Abbot of Luxulyan, Cornwall; Anatolius the Younger of Optina (see also November 12, July 30); Martyr John the soldier at Constantinople (see also July 30); Martyrs Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice, of Rome; Virgin-martyr Seraphima of Antioch Featured article The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora." Recently featured: Raphael Morgan, Holy Week, Georges Florovsky, Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria, Paschal Homily, Pachomius the Great. View all featured articles.

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