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Today's feasts April 24 2024: Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him; Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and others at Nicomedia; Martyrs Pasicrates and Valentine in Moesia (Bulgaria); Saint Thomas the Fool of Syria; Saint Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople; Saints Sabbas and Alexius the hermit of the Kiev Caves; New-Martyrs Luke, Akylina, Nicholas, and George of Magnesia; Martyr Alexander of Lyons; Saints Iorest and Sava Brancovici, Metropolitans of Ardeal, confessors in Romania against the Calvinists; Hieromartyrs Phylikos, Fourtunatos, and Achilleos; Saint Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury; Saint Egbert, Bishop of Iona; repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam; translation of the relics of Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of Hexham; uncovering of the relics of Saint Yvo, Bishop at St. Ives in Huntingdonshire ( April 11 2024: Julian Calendar ) Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum, disciple of Saint John the Theologian; Saint Pharmuthius the Anchorite of Egypt; Martyrs Processus and Martinian of Rome; Venerable John, disciple of the Venerable Gregory of Decapolis; Venerable James, abbot of Zhelaznoborov, and his fellow ascetic Saint James; Saints Euthymius and Chariton, abbots of Syanzhemsk (Vologda); Saint Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver; Saint Callinicus of Cernica, Bishop of Rimnicului in Romania; Venerable Tryphainis of Cyzicus; Saint Guthlac, Hieromonk, of Crowland; appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos at Pochaev (the Footprint) 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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