May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 26

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 7 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)^[1][2]
• Martyr Celestine, in Rome.^[3]
• Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others at Dorostolum (302)^[4]
• Hieromartyr Therapont of Cyprus, bishop (300-305)^[5][6][7]
• Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)^[2][8]
• Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus (384)^[9]
• Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)^[2][10]
• Saint Leo of Troyes, monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c.550)^[2][11]
• Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)^[11]
• Saint Dodo, prince of Georgia, monk of Gareji (596)^[6]
• Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)^[2][12]
• Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)^[11]
• Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862)^[11]
• Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881)^[11]
• Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936)^[11]
• Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk.^[13]
• Saint Skiota of Georgia (c.13th c.)^[14]
• Righteous John and Mary of Ustiug (Vologda) (13th c.)^[15]
• Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c.1492)^[16]
• Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th c.)^[17]
• Saint Innocent archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857)^{[4][18][note 1]}
• Virgin-Martyr Helen (1938)^[4]
• New Hieromartyr Tavrion (1939)^[4]

Other commemorations

• Third Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (c.850)^[19][20]
• Commemoration of the Reunion of three million Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831)^[4][6]
• Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (1836)^[6][15]
• Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:

• Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.^[4][21]

• Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)^[22]
• Icon of the Mother of God "the Helper of the sinners" from Koretsk.^[23]

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.
• May 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 25. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 25 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.