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Today's feasts June 7 2024: Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Ankyra; Martyrs Kyriaki, Caleria (Valeria), and Maria, of Caesarea in Palestine; Hieromartyr Marcellinus, Pope of Rome, and those martyred with him: Claudius, Cyrenus, and Antoninus; Hieromartyr Marcellus I, Pope of Rome, and those with him: Deacon Sisinius, Deacon Cyriacus, Smaragdus, Largus, Apronian, Saturninus, Pappias, Maurus, Crescentian, Priscilla, Lucina (Lucy), and princess Artemia; Saint Daniel of Scete in Egypt; Virgin Martyr Potemaiena of Alexandria; Martyr Zenais (Zenaida) of Caesarea in Palestine; holy women Aesia and Susanna, disciples of Saint Pancratius of Taormina (Tavromenia) and martyred with him; Martyr Lycarion of Hermopolis in Egypt; Martyrs Tarasius and John; Saint Stephen the hieromonk; Saint Anthimus the hieromonk; Saint Sebastian the Wonder-worker; Righteous Father Panage (Basia); Venerable Cedd, Bishop of Essex (see also October 26); Saint Conon, Bishop of Dromore; Saint Meriasek, Bishop of Camborne; repose of Anthony Ivanovich, Fool-for-Christ of Valaam ( May 25 2024: Julian Calendar ) Feasts: Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet Saint John the Baptist (c.850); Saints: Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others at Dorostolum (302); Hieromartyr Therapont of Cyprus, Bishop (300-305); Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus (384); Saint Dodo, prince of Georgia, monk of Gareji (596); Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk; Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230); Martyr Celestine, in Rome; Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359); Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390); Saint Leo of Troyes, monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c.550); Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550); Saint Aldhelm of Sherborne, Bishop of Sherborne (709); Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh Abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717); Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862); Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881); Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936); Saint Skiota of Georgia (c.13th c.); Righteous John and Mary of Ustiug (Vologda) (13th c.); Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c.1492); Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th c.); Saint Innocent archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857); Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia: Saints Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana; Virgin-Martyr Helen (1938); Hieromartyr Tavrion (1939); Icon of the Mother of God "the Helper of the sinners" from Koretsk; Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831); Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (1836); Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936); Commemoration of Protopresbyter John Labunsky of Nizhyn (1945) (see also April 23). 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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