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Today's feasts April 25 2024: Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark; Saint Macedonius, Patriarch of Constantinople; Saint Sylvester, Abbot of Obnora; Martyr Nice; eight anchorites who were martyred; New Martyrs Emmanuel, Theodore, Gregory, Michael, and the other Gregory at Macre of Alexandropoulos; Saint Ælfwold, Bishop of Sherborne; repose of Bassian the Blind of the Kiev Caves; Icon of the Theotokos of Constantinople ( April 12 2024: Julian Calendar ) Hieromartyr Artemon the Presbyter, of Laodicea (284-305); Martyrs Demas and Protion, and those with them, by beheading (285-305); Martyr Sabbas the Goth, at Buzau in Wallachia (372) (see also April 15); Saint Isaac the Syrian (Isaac of Monteluco), Abbot of Spoleto, Italy (c. 550) (see also April 11 - West); Venerable monk-martyrs David, John and Menas, of Palestine, shot by archers (after 636); Venerable Anthusa the Virgin-martyr of Constantinople (809); Venerable Athanasia the Wonderworker (Athanasia of Aegina), Abbess, of Aegina (850) (see also April 18); Saint Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium (9th century); Saint Sergius II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1019); Saint Vissia, a virgin-martyr in Fermo near Ancona in Italy under Decius (c. 250); Saint Victor of Braga (São Victor), a catechumen martyred in Braga in Portugal under Diocletian, thus baptised in his own blood (c. 300); Saint Julius I the Great, Pope of Rome, defended St Athanasius against his Arian accusers, and also built many churches (352); Hieromartyr Zeno of Verona, Bishop of Verona (371); Saint Constantine, the first Bishop of Gap in France (529); Saint Wigbert (690); Saint Tetricus, Abbot of St Germanus in Auxerre, then Bishop of Auxerre by popular acclamation, murdered in his sleep (707); Saint Damian of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Lombardy in Italy, who vigorously opposed Monothelitism (710); Saint Erkemboden, a monk at Sithin in Saint-Omer in France, later Bishop of Thérouanne (714); Saint Alferius, (Alpherius, Adalfericus), monk, founder of the Monastery of La Cava (1050); Saint Sylvester, Bishop of Pereyaslav and Igumen of Vydubychi Monastery (1123); Saint Basil of Ryazan, Bishop of Ryazan (1295) (see also May 21, June 10, July 3, and July 10); Venerable Acacius of Kapsokalyvia Skete, Mount Athos (1730); New Hieromartyr Demetrius Rozhdestvensky, Protopresbyter of Alma-Ata (1921); New Hieromartyr Sergius (1938); Other Commemorations: Deposition of the Cincture (Sash, Zone, Belt) of the Most Holy Theotokos in Constantinople (942) (see also August 31); Synaxis of the Murom Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (early 12th century); Venerable Neophytus the Recluse, of Cyprus, Wonderworker (1204) (feast day January 24); Synaxis of the Belinich Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1876); Repose of Archbishop Juvenal of Vilnius, Lithuania, monk of Optina Monastery (1904) Proclamation of the autocephaly of the Church of Georgia (1917) 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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