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Today's feasts January 9 2025: Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Semeias), III Kings 12:22, (10th c. BC) - (see also January 8 - Greek); Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259); Martyr Antonina of Nicomedia, martyred at sea; Martyr Lawrence, martyred in the arena; Saint Peter of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, brother of Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 395); Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker, of Tarsus (821); Venerable Basil and Gregory the Wonderworkers, uncles of Saint Eustratius (9th c.); Virgin-Martyr Paschasia, venerated from ancient times in Dijon in France (ca.178); Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and seven other Companions - Twelve martyrs in North Africa, under Decian (ca.250); Virgin-martyr Marciana of Mauretania (ca.303); Saint Marcellinus of Ancona, Bishop of Ancona (566); Saint Waningus (Vaneng), Benedictine abbot (ca.686); Saint Maurontus (Maurontius, Mauruntius), founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France (ca.700); Saint Adrian, Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's, in Canterbury (710); Saint Brithwald (Brihtwald), a monk and then the Abbot of Reculver in Kent, and in 693 becoming the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury (731); Saint Foellan (Foilan, Fillan), son of St Kentigerna, Abbot of Strathfillan (8th c.); New Martyr Parthena of Edessa, in Macedonia (1375); Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of all Russia (1569); Saint Jonah (Miroshnichenko), (Peter in Schema), founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev, Wonderworker (1902); New Hieromartyr Paul (Florensky), Priest (1943); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople (869); Translation of the relics (903) of St. Judoc, hermit of Ponthieu; Commemoration of Stefan Yavorsky, Metropolitan of Ryazan and Murom (1722), defender of Orthodoxy; Commemoration of Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel (Starodub), Native of Poltava (2010), and of his spiritual Father, Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly (Sidorenko). ( December 27 2024: Julian Calendar ) Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity; Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (34); Saint Maximus, Pope of Alexandria (282); Martyrs Maurice, with his son Photinus, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea (286-305); Saint Theodore, Patriarch of Constantinople (686); Venerable Theodore the Branded (Theodore Graptus), of Palestine and Bithynia, Confessor, brother of St. Theophanes the Hymnographer (840); Venerable Luke, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Triglia, in Bithynia; Saint Fabiola, a patrician in Rome who gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work (399); Saint Svyatoslav II Yaroslavich, Prince of Chernihiv, son of St Yaroslav the Wise (1076); Venerable Abbot Boniface (Vinogradsky), founder of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Kiev (1871); New Hieromartyrs Tikhon (Nikanorov), Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919); Virgin-Martyr Antonina (1937); Other Commemorations: Uncovering of Relics (1514) of Venerable Pherapont (Therapont) of Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk (feast day May 27); Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, Missionary to the Tatars (1891); Repose of Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam (1909); Repose of Helen Ivanovna Motovilova (1910); Repose of Abbot Athanasius of Grigoriou Monastery, Mount Athos (1953); Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim (Rozenberg) of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1993); Icon of the Mother of God "the Merciful". 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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