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Today's feasts May 18 2025: Martyrs Peter of Lampsacus, Andrew, Paul, Dionysia, and Christina, under Decius (ca.249-251); Martyrs Heraclius, Paulinus, and Benedimus of Athens (ca.249-251); Martyr Euphrasia of Nicaea (ca.303); Martyr Galactia; Martyr Julian; Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra, and with him eight virgin-martyrs: Alexandra, Tecusa, Claudia, Phaine (Thaïna), Euphrasia, Theodota, Matrona, and Julia (304); Martyr Dioscorus, in Cynopolis of Egypt (305); Martyrs Symeon, Isaac, and Bachtisius of Persia (339) (see also May 16 - Greek); Hieromartyr Potamon (Palæmon), Bishop of Heraclea in Egypt, and Confessor (340); The Holy clergy and lay martyrs massacred under Emperor Valens (364-378); Martyrs David and Tarechan, of Georgia (693); Patriarch Stephen the New of Constantinople (893) (see also May 17 - Slavonic); Saint Anastaso of Leukadion (Anastasia of Laucation), near the Bithinian sea-shore; Saint Martinian of Areovinthus (Areobindus, Areovinchus), monk of the church of the Theotokos of the Areovinthus quarter, Constantinople; Venerable Stephanos the Chorabyte; Martyr Venantius of Camerino (250); Hieromartyr Felix, Bishop of Spoleto, in Umbria (304); Hieromartyr Pope John I of Rome (526); Hieromartyr Pope Theodore I of Rome (649); Martyr Merililaun (Merolilaun), a pilgrim murdered near Rheims and venerated as a martyr (8th c.); Saint Feredarius (Feradach mac Cormaic), Abbot of Iona (ca.880); Saint Elgiva, Widow of King Edmund, Abbess of Shaftesbury and Queen of England (944); Saint John (Gashkevich), Archpriest of Korma (1917); New Hieromartyr Michael, priest (1932); New Hieromartyr Damian (Damjan) Strbac, Jr., priest of Grahovo, Serbia (1940s); New Hieromartyr Basil, priest (1942); Other Commemorations: Translation of the relics of Saint Mildred of Thanet (Mildthryth), Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet (8th c.); Repose of Archimandrite Macarius (Glukharev) of the Altai, missionary to the Altai region in Siberia (1847); Repose of Blessed Philip, founder of the Gethsemane Caves Skete of St. Sergius Lavra (1869). ( May 5 2025: Julian Calendar ) Great-Martyr Irene of Thessaloniki (4th c.); Martyrs Irenaeus, Pellegrinus and Irene, at Thessaloniki (284–305); Martyrs Neophytus, Gaius, and Gaianus; St. Eulogius the Confessor, bishop of Edessa (ca. 386); Saints Martin and Heraclius, of Illyria (4th c.); Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, bishop of Madytos on the Hellespont (ca. 990); Martyr Jovinian, the lector of St. Peregrine of Auxerre (ca.304); Saint Brito (Britonius) (386); Saint Nectarius of Vienne, bishop of Vienne (ca.445); Saint Nicetus of Vienne, fifteenth bishop of Vienne (ca.449); Saint Hilarion, Archbishop of Arles (449); Saint Geruntius of Milan (470); Martyr Crescentiana of Rome (5th c.) Saint Hydrock (Hydroc) of Cornwall (5th c.); Saint Sacerdos of Saguntum (ca.560); Saint Waldrada, first abbess of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains in Metz in France (ca.620); Saint Maurontius of Douai (Maurontus, Mauront), founded monastery at Breuil-sur-lys near Douai (701); Saint Echa of Crayke, (Etha), Anglo-Saxon priest and monk-hermit at Crayke, near York, England (767); Saints Barlaam of Serpukhov and Gideon of Serpukhov (1377); New Monk-martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1426); Saint Adrian, Abbot of Monza Monastery (1619); New Hieromartyr Nicholas, priest (1919); New Hieromartyr Platon of Banja Luka (1941); Other Commemorations: Translation of the relics (980) of Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709); Uncovering of the relics (1613) of Saint James of Zheleznoborov, abbot of Zhelezny Bor (1442); Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Inexhaustible Cup” (1878). 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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