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Today's feastsJanuary 26 2021:Martyrs Ananias the priest, Peter the prison guard, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia (295); The Holy Two Martys of Phrygia; Venerable Ammon of Egypt (350), disciple of St. Anthony the Great (see also January 10 and December 7); Venerable Symeon "the Ancient" of Mount Sinai (c. 390); Saint Paula of Rome (Paula of Palestine), monastic foundress in Palestine (404); Venerable Gabriel, Abbot of the monastery of Saint Stephanos in Jerusalem (c. 490); Venerable Xenophon and his wife St. Mary, and their two sons Sts. Arcadius and John, of Constantinople (6th century); Saint Conon, Bishop and monastic founder on the Isle of Man (648); Saint Theofrid (Theofroy), a monk at Luxeuil in France who became Abbot of Corbie, and a Bishop (c. 690); Saint Athanasius, honoured as a bishop in Sorrento in the south of Italy; Saint Alphonsus of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga in Spain (9th century); Saint Ansurius (Aduri, Asurius, Isauri), Bishop of Orense in Galicia (925); Venerable Clement of Mt. Sagmation (1111); Saint David the Builder (David III), King of Georgia (1125); Venerable Xenophon of Robeika, Abbot of Robeika, Novgorod (1262); Venerable Arcadius of Vyaznikovsky (1592); New Martyr Matushka Maria of Gatchina (1930); New Hieromartyr Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan (1937); New Hieromartyr Arcadius (1938); Martyr John Popov (1938); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople (447-448), during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450); Translation of the relics (845) of Sts. Theodore the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion Monastery (826), and his brother Joseph the Confessor (Joseph of Thessalonica), Archbishop of Thessalonica (832); Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel (Petrov) of Novgorod and St. Petersburg (1801); Repose of Metropolitan Joseph (Naniescu) of Suceava, Romania (1902). Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Serbian Calendar: Apodosis of the Theophany); Martyr Peter of Anium, at Hierapolis (Peter Apselamus at Eleutheropolis) (ca.309) - (see also January 12 and October 14); Martyrs Hermylus the Deacon and Stratonicus, at Belgrade (315); Martyr Athanasius; Martyrs Pachomius and Papyrinus, by drowning; Saint Jacob of Nisibis, Bishop of Nisibis, the "Moses of Mesopotamia" (ca.350); Saint Potitus, a boy venerated as a martyr near Naples (ca.138-161); Saint Andrew of Trier, twelfth Bishop of Trier (235); Forty soldier-martyrs of Rome, who suffered on the Via Lavicana, under Gallienus (262); Saint Agricius of Trier, Bishop of Trier who took part in the Council of Arles in 314 (ca.333); Saint Hilary (Hilary of Pictavium), Bishop of Poitiers (368); Saint Viventius, an eastern priest who travelled to the West, attached himself to St Hilary of Poitiers, and ended his life as a hermit (ca.400); Saint Erbin of Dumnonia (Ervan, Erbyn, Erme), King of Dumnonia and a saint of Wales (ca.480); Saint Remigius of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks (437–533) and Bishop of Rheims from 459 (533); Saint Elian (Eilan, Allan), Missionary to Cornwall, England (6th c.) - (see also January 12 - Greek); Saint Kentigern, Bishop of Glasgow, Apostle of the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde (614) - (see also January 14 - Russian); Saint Enogatus, fifth successor of St Malo as Bishop of Aleth in Brittany (631); Martyrs Gumesindus and Servusdei, one a parish-priest, the other a monk, in Cordoba in Spain under Abderrahman II (852); Saint Berno of Cluny, first Abbot of Cluny and initiator of the Cluniac reforms which spread across Europe (927); Righteous Maximus of Kavsokalyvia, Mount Athos (1354); Saint Irenarchus the Recluse, of Rostov (1616); Venerable Eleazar of Anzersk Island at Solovki (1656); Other Commemorations: Consecration of the Monastery of the Prophet Elias - the so-called "Monastery of the Deep Stream" - in Triglia, Bithynia (10th c.). Featured articleThe 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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