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Today's feasts January 17: Venerable and God-bearing father Anthony the Great, father of monasticism; Martyr Jonilla and her infant son Turbo (ca. 161-180) - (see also: January 16); Saint Theodosius the Great, Emperor of Rome (395); Venerable Achilles the Confessor, hermit of Egypt (5th c.); Venerable Anthony the New Wonderworker, of Veria in Greece, near the Haliacmon river (11th c.); Saints Genulfus and Genitus, two monks who lived in Celle-sur-Naton in France (ca.3rd c.); Venerable Antony, Merulus and John, three monks at St Andrew's on the Coelian Hill in Rome (6th c.); Saint Nennius (Ninnidh), disciple of St Finian of Clonard, reckoned as one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland' (6th c.); Saint Sulpicius II Pius (Severus the Pious), Bishop of Bourges (647); Saint Mildgyth, Abbess of Minster (ca.676); Saint Richimirus, founder of the monastery later called Saint-Rigomer-des-Bois (715); Saint Joseph of Freising, Bishop of Freising (764); Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot (1147); Saint Anthony, Abbot of Dymsk in Novgorod (1224); Saint Anthony of Chernoezersk (Anthony of Black Lake), monk (ca.14th c.); Saint Anthony of Krasny Kholm, monk (1481); Venerable Anthony of Meteora (Anthony Kantakouzènos), founder and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (15th c.); Venerable Philotheos of Meteora, second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (16th c.); Saint Macarius (Kalogeras), Hierodeacon, of Patmos (1737); New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838); New Hieromartyr Victor, Priest (1931); New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest (1938); Other Commemorations: Repose of St. Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588) - (feast day October 26); Repose of Schema-abbot Herman of Zosima Hermitage (1923); Repose of Archimandrite Tikhon (Bogoslovtsev) of Inkerman (1950); Repose of Bishop Sava (Sarachevich) of Edmonton (1973). 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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