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Today's feasts

April 24:

The Holy Trinity

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

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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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