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Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, brothers, Martyrs at Rome (284); Holy 2000 Martyrs, by the sword; Holy 25 Martyrs in Nicomedia, by fire; Saint Maurice; Venerable Peter the Patrician (Peter of Constantinople), monk (854); Venerable Basil, founder of the Monastery of the Deep Stream, Cappadocia (10th c.) Saint Leo the Hermit, Ascetic; Saint Martin of Vienne, third Bishop of Vienne in France (ca.132); Martyr Potitus at Naples (161); Martyrs Julius and Aaron, Protomartyrs of Wales, suffered in Caerleon-on-Usk under Diocletian (304); Saints Castus and Secundinus, much venerated in the south of Italy (305); Saint Domitian, founder of Monastery of Bebron (ca.337-440); Saint Theodoric (Thierry, Theodericus), Abbot of Mont d'Or near Rheims, priest and disciple of the blessed Bp. Remigius (ca.533); Saint Carilefus (Calais), a companion of St Avitus, founded the monastery of Anisole in Maine in France (ca.536); Saint Gal I (Gallus of Clermont), uncle and teacher of St Gregory of Tours (ca.553); Saint Leonorius (Léonor, Lunaire) (ca. 570); Saint Eparchius (Cybar), a noble from Périgord in France, renounced his title to become a monk at Sessac in Gaul (581); Saint Serf (Servanus), Bishop of Kinross, the Apostle of West Fife in Scotland (ca.583); Saint Veep ((Veepus, Veepy, Wimp, Wennapa), patron saint of St Veep in Cornwall (6th c.); Saint Cewydd, a saint of Anglesey in Wales and at Lancaut in Gloucestershire in England (6th c.); Saint Juthware, sister of St. Sidwell, she was of British descent and lived in Devon in England (7th c.); Martyr Constantine of Cyprus (Constantine of Allemagne), Wonderworker, and those with him (late 12th c.); Saint Leontius of Rădăuți, Bishop of Rădăuți in Moldavia (1432); Saint Angelina of Serbia, Despotina (16th c.) (see also December 10); Venerable Nicodemus of Svyatogorsk (Nikodim Svyatogorets), (1809) (see July 14); New Hieromartyr Arcadius, priest (1918); New Hieromartyr Alexis, deacon (1942); Other Commemorations: Second translation of the relics of Venerable John of Rila (946), from Trnovo to Rila (1470).
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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."
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