May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 26

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 12.

Feasts

• Third Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (c. 850)

Saints

• Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others at Dorostolum (302)
• Hieromartyr Therapont of Cyprus, bishop (300–305) <small>(see also: May 27)</small>
• Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus (384)
• Saint Dodo, prince of Georgia, monk of Gareji (596) <small>(see also: May 17, June 2)</small>
• Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk.

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)
• Martyr Celestine, in Rome.
• Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)
• Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)
• Saint Leo of Troyes, monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550)
• Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)
• Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)
• Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)
• Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862)
• Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881)
• Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Skiota of Georgia (c. 13th century)
• Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)
• Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)
• Saint Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857)
• Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:
• Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.

New martyrs and confessors

• Virgin-Martyr Helen Korobkova (1938)
• Hieromartyr Tavrion Tolokontsevo (1939)

Other commemorations

• Icon of the Mother of God "the Helper of the sinners" from Koretsk.
• Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831)
• Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (1836)
• Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)
• Commemoration of Protopresbyter John Labunsky of Nizhyn (1945)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• May 25/June 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• June 7/May 25. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• May 25. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• May 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 25. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 25 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 25 ΜαΐοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 7 июня (25 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 25 мая (ст.ст.) 7 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).