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Today's feasts January 23 2025: Hieromartyr Clement of Ancyra, Bishop of Ancyra, and Martyr Agathangelus (312); Saint Acholios (Ascholios), Bishop of Thessaloniki (383); Venerable Eusebius, recluse of Mount Coryphe near Antioch (4th century); Venerable Salamanes the Silent (Salamanes the Hesychast), of the Euphrates, monk (ca. 400); Venerable Mausimas the Syrian, priest near Cyrrhus (before 423); Saint Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola (431); The Holy Two Martyrs of Parium, near Cyzicus and Lampsacus, in Asia Minor. Saint Emerentiana, Virgin-Martyr in Rome (305); Saint Amasius of Teano, Bishop of Teano in central Italy (356); Saints Severian and Aquila, a husband and wife martyred in Julia Caesarea in Mauritania in North Africa; Saint Martyrius (Martory), a hermit in the Abruzzi in Italy (6th century); Saint Ormond (Armand), abbot of Saint Mairé in France, abbot (6th century); Saint Ildefonsus, Metropolitan Bishop of Toledo (667); Saint Colman of Lismore, Abbot of Lismore Abbey in Ireland and also a bishop (702); Saint Lufthild, a saint honoured near Cologne in Germany, where she lived as an anchoress (c. 850); Saint Maimbod (Mainboeuf), martyred by pagans while preaching to peasants near Kaltenbrunn in Alsace, now in France (c. 880); Saint Dionysius of Olympus and Mt. Athos (1541); Venerable Gennadius of Kostroma, monk (1565); Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich, in Kostroma Oblast (16th century) (see also March 27); New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Bulashov), Abbot of Holy Transfiguration Guslitsky Monastery (Moscow) (1938); New Hieromartyr Anatolius (Grisjuk) of Odessa, Bishop and Martyr (1938); Virgin-martyrs Evdokia and Ekaterine (1938); Virgin-martyr Militsa (1938); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681); Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma; Translation of the relics (1786) of St. Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod (1310); Repose of Abbot Damascene of Valaam Monastery (1881); Repose of Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (2006). ( January 10 2025: Julian Calendar ) Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Blessed Theosebia the Deaconess (385), sister of Ss. Basil the Great, Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa; Saint Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa; Venerable Ammon, monk at Scetis in Egypt (5th c.); Saint Marcian of Constantinople, Presbyter (471); Venerable Dometian of Melitene, Bishop of Melitene and Wonderworker (601); Saint Pétrone (Petronius), monk at Lérins Abbey, then Bishop of Die in France (463); Saint Diarmaid the Just (Dermot, Diarmis), spiritual father of St Kieran of Clonmacnois and Abbot of Inchcleraun 6th c.); Saint Tómméne (Thomian, Toimen), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland (ca.660); Saint Sæthryth (Saethryda, Sethrid), Abbess of Faremoutier-en-Brie (ca.660); Saint John Camillus the Good, Bishop of Milan, worked against Arianism and Monothelitism (669); Saint Agatho, Pope of Rome (681); Saint Peter Urseolus (Pietro I Orseolo), Doge of Venice, and monk at Cuxa Monastery in Spain (987); Venerable Paul of Obnora in Vologda, Abbot (1429); Saint Macarius of Obnora in Vologda, disciple of Paul of Obnora, Abbot of Pisma Monastery (15th c.); Monk-martyr Ephraim, Elder of Obnora, and six monks of Obnora whose relics are incorrupt (1538); Venerable Antipas of Calapodeşti (Romania), of Mount Athos and of Valaam Monastery, Hiero-Schemamonk (1882); Venerable Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov (1894) - (see also January 6); New Hieromartyr Zenobius, Priest (1920); New Hieromartyr Peter Uspensky, Archpriest of Radushino (Zaraisk) (1930); New Hieromartyr Anatolius (Grisyuk), Metropolitan of Odessa (1938); New Martyr Arsenia (Dobronravova), Abbess of the Holy Resurrection-St. Theodore Convent (Shuisk) (1939). 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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