July 24 - Eastern Orthodox calendar - July 26
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 7 by Old Calendar.
For July 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 12.
Saints
* Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon, Sanctus the Deacon, Maturus, Attalus, Blandina, Vettius, Epagathus, Biblis, Ponticus, Alexander, and those with them, at Lyon.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint James the Greater, the son of Zebedee and brother of St John the Evangelist (44) <small>(see also: April 30 - East)</small>
- Saints Florentius and Felix, two soldiers martyred under Maximinius the Thracian at Furcona near Aquila in the south of Italy (235)
- Martyr Cucuphas of Barcelona (Cucufate, Cugat, Guinefort, Qoqofas), a martyr of Spain (304)
- Saint Nessan (Neasán), a convert of St Patrick of Ireland, he became Abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret, Mungret) in Wexford (5th century)
- Saint Magnericus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (596)
- Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), born in Beauvais in France, he became a hermit and later founded a monastery at Saint-Fuscien-aux-Bois (<small>'</small>) (c. 600)
- Saint Glodesinda of Metz, a nun in Metz in France, where she later became abbess (c. 608)
- Saint Banthus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (7th century) <small>(see also: July 28)</small>
- Saint Theodemir of Córdoba, a monk martyred in Córdoba in Spain under Abderrahman II (851)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Udintsev, Priest (1918)
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Sakharov, Priest (1927)
- New Hieromartyr Theodore Tonkovid, Priest of Lovets, Pskov (1942)
- New Hieromartyrs Vukosav Milanovic and Rodoljub Samardzic, of Kulen Vakuf, Serbia (1941-1945)
- Saint Iraida Tikhova, Confessor (1967)
Other commemorations
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Notes
References
Sources
- July 25/August 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- August 7 / July 25. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- July 25. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
- July 25. The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
- The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). pp. 54âÂÂ55.
- The Twenty-Fifth Day of the Month of July. Orthodoxy in China.
- July 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
- The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 219âÂÂ220.
- Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 357âÂÂ358.
Greek Sources
Russian Sources