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May 10 2024:

Apostle Simon the Zealot

Apostle Simon the Zealot; Martyr Hesychius the Palatine of Antioch (ca.304); Saint Isidora the Fool-for-Christ, of Tabennisi, Egypt (ca. 365); Saint Isidore of Alexandria (319-404), Hieromonk and Hospitaller (hospital administrator) (404); Venerable Passarion the Presbyter (Passarion of Palestine), Agapius and Philemon (mid 5th c.); Blessed Thais (Taisia) of Egypt (5th c.) (see also October 8); Saint Laurence of Egypt, monk (6th c.); Martyrs Calepodius, Palmatius, Simplicius, Felix, Blanda and Companions (ca.222-232); Martyrs Alphius, Philadelphus, Cyprian, at Lentini in Sicily (251); Martyrs Erasmus, Onesimus, and 14 other martyrs, in Sicily (251); Saint Aurelian of Limoges, Disciple of St Martial of Limoges in France (3rd c.); Martyrs Quartus and Quintus, two citizens of Capua who were condemned and executed in Rome; Saint Comgall, founder and abbot of Bangor (602); Saint Cataldus, born in Munster in Ireland, became a monk at Lismore, then Bishop of Taranto; renowned for miracles (7th c.); Virgin-martyr Solangia (Solange) (880); Saint Simeon the Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal of the Kiev Near Caves (1226); Saint Laurence, monastic founder at Mt. Pelion in Volos (late 14th c.); Blessed Simon of Yurievits and Zharki, Fool-for-Christ (1584); Saint Eustathios of Crimea (1745-1759), martyred in Theodosia, Crimea (1759); Saint Synesius of Irkutsk (1787); Other Commemorations: Passage of the relics (1087) of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker through the island of Zakynthos, while on their way to Bari; Translation of the relics (1670) of the Blessed martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1602); "Kiev-Bratskaya" Icon of the Mother of God (1654); Repose of Eldress Taisia (Thaisia) of Voronezh (1840); Repose of Hieromonk Andrew (in schema Abramius) of Whitehoof Convent (1902).



( April 27 2024: Julian Calendar )

Apostle Symeon

Hieromartyr Symeon the kinsman of the Lord, Apostle of the Seventy and Bishop of Jerusalem (107); Martyr Anthimus of Nicomedia, Bishop (303); Martyr Poplionus (Poplion, Popllon); Martyr Lollionus the New (Longinus the New); Saint Pollion the Reader (Pollio), of Cibalis in Pannonia, burnt alive under Diocletian (306); Saint Eulogius the Hospitable of Constantinople (6th c.); Saint Nicon, abbot of the Monastery of St. Gerasimus (6th c.); Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger of Cilicia (Symeon the New Stylite) (597), and his brother George; Saint John of Cathares, abbot of Cathares Monastery at Constantinople (839); Saint Liberalis of Treviso, priest from Ancona in Italy, worked for the conversion of the Arians and suffered much at their hands (400); Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Brescia (427); Saint Maughold {Machalus), Bishop of the Isle of Man (ca.488); Saint Assicus (Ascicus, Tassach), first bishop of Elphin, Ireland, converted to Christianity by Saint Patrick (490); Saint Tertullian, eighth Bishop of Bologna in Italy (490); Saint Enoder (Cynidr, Kenedr, Quidic) (6th c.); Saint Winewald, Abbot of Beverley in England (ca.731); Saint Floribert of Liège (746); Saint Stephen, Abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir in Volhynia (1094); New Hieromartyr Seraphim of Phanarion, Bishop of Phanarion and Neokhorion (1601); New Martyr Elias Ardunis of Mount Athos (1686) New Hieromartyrs Paul (Svetozarov), Protopresbyter (1922) and John (Rozhdestvensky), Priests of Ivanova (1922); New Martyrs: Peter (Yazikov), Nicholas (Malkov), Auxentius (Kalashnikov), Sergius (Mefodiev) and Virgin-martyr Anastasia, at Ivanova (1922); Virgin-martyr Mary (1938); New Hieromartyr John (Spassky), Priest of Tver (1941); Other Commemorations: Incineration of the relics of Saint Sabbas, first Archbishop of Serbia, by Sinan Pasha (1595); Glorification (1999) of New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Vereya (1929)



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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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