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Today's feasts March 5: Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st century); Martyr Nestor, father of Martyr Conon of Isauria; Martyr Onisius (Onesimus) of Isauria, by beheading (1st century); Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (200); Martyr Conon the Gardener, of Pamphylia (251); Martyrs Archelaus, Kyrillos, Photios, Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoë, and 152 Martyrs in Egypt (c. 308); Venerable Conon of Cyprus (4th century); Martyr Eulogius of Palestine; Martyr Eulampius of Palestine, by the sword; Venerable Mark the Ascetic of Egypt (Mark the Athenian, Mark the Faster) (5th century); Saint Hesychius the Faster, of Bithynia (790); Saint Oliva of Brescia, martyred in Brescia in the north of Italy, under the Emperor Hadrian (138); Saint Eusebius, born in Cremona in Italy, he became an abbot in Bethlehem and took part in the struggle against Origenism; Saint Eusebius and Companions, a group of ten martyrs who suffered in North Africa; Saint Colman of Armagh, a disciple of St Patrick in Ireland (5th century); Saint Kieran of Saighir (Ciaran of Ossory), confessor (c. 530); Saint Carthage the Elder, the successor of St Kieran as Bishop of Ossory in Ireland (c. 540); Saint Caron, the church at Tregaron in Dyfed in Wales is dedicated to him; Saint Piran of Padstowe (Pyran), monk of Perranporth (6th century); Saint Virgilius of Arles, Archbishop of Arles (610); Saint Clement, Abbot of Santa Lucia in Syracuse in Sicily (c. 800); Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl; Monk-martyr Adrian, Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550), and his fellow-ascetic St. Leonidas (1549); New Martyr John the Bulgarian, at Constantinople (1784); New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805) (see also March 15); New Martyr George of Rapsana, at Larissa (1818); Saint Nikolai (Velimirovich), Bishop of Ohrid and Žiča, Serbia (1956); New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pokrovsky (1919); New Hieromartyr John Mirotvortsiev (1938); New Hieromartyr Theophan (Grafov), Hierodeacon, of Borisoglebsk Monastery, Vladimir (1938); New Hieromartyr Mardarius (Isaev), Hieromonk, of Yurievskoe, Yaroslavl, (1938); Other Commemorations: Icon of the Mother of God "the Teacher" (or "Education" or "Nurtured Up-Bringing"); Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299), and his children Saints David (1321) and Constantine (ca. 1322); Repose of Metropolitan Cornelius of Novgorod (1698). 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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