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Today's feasts March 10: Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), and with him Martyrs Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens, and Dionysius (another), at Corinth (251); Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias, Leonidas, Chariessa, Nunechia, Basilissa, Nice, Galla, Galina, Theodora and others, at Corinth (251 or 258); Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259) (see also March 7); Martyr Marcian, by scourging; Saint Anastasia the Patrician, of Alexandria, who concealed her beauty as "Anastasios the Eunuch" (567); Saint George Arselaites (6th century); Venerable Agathon, ascetic at the Monastery of St Symeon near Aleppo in Syria; Martyr Victor, in North Africa under Decius; Saint Silvester, a companion of St Palladius in enlightening Ireland (c. 420); Saint Simplicius, Pope of Rome (468-483), who upheld the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon against Monophysitism and dealt with the Arian King Odoacer after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 (483); Saint Droctoveus (Drotté), a disciple of St Germanus of Paris (c. 580); Saint Kessog of Lennox (Mackessog), Irish missionary active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire, Bishop of Loch Lomond (c. 560); Saint Sedna (Sétna), Bishop of Ossory in Ireland and a friend of St Luanus (c. 570); Saint Attalus (Attala), Abbot of Bobbio Abbey (626); Saint Emilian (Eminian), a monk and then Abbot of Lagny (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lagny) in France (675); Saint Himelin, an Irish or Scottish priest (c. 750); Saint Failbhe the Little (Fáilbe mac Pípáin), Abbot of Iona in Scotland (754); Venerable John of Khakhuli Monastery, Georgia, called Chrysostom ("Golden Mouth"), reposed on Mt. Athos (10th-11th century); New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (Michael (Maurudisos) of Soluneia), at Thessalonica (1544 or 1547) (see also March 21); Saint Paul of Taganrog (Pavel of Taganrog) (1879); Saint Alexander (Badanin), Priest, of Vologda (1913) New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest (1938); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the Desert-dwellers of the Roslavl Forests near Bryansk. 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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