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March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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March 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 26

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An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

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

Feasts

Saints

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Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

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Other commemorations

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Notes

  1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. Name days today include:
    • Evangelos (Angelo),
    • Evangelia (Angela).
  3. "At Jerusalem, the commemoration of the good Thief, who confessed Christ on the cross, and deserved to hear from Him these words: "This day thou shalt be with Me in paradise.""[6]
  4. Venerable Sennouphios was an ascetic of Nitria, who saw a vision of an icon of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who instructed him to go to Latomos Monastery in Thessalonica, where he would see this same icon.
  5. "At Rome, St. Quirinus, martyr, who after losing his goods, suffering imprisonment in a dark dungeon, and being severely scourged, was put to death with the sword, and thrown into the Tiber. The Christians found his body in the island of St. Bartholomew and buried it in the Pontian cemetery."[6]
  6. An ascetic who lived as a hermit on an island in Lough Derg in Ireland. Many disciples were attracted to him on account of his holiness. Later he founded a monastery and church on the island of the Seven Churches and worked with St Senan. A fragment of the Psalter of St Caimin, copied in his own hand, still exists.
  7. "In Indre, an island of the Loire, the abbot St. Hermelandus, whose glorious life is attested by signal miracles."[6]
  8. Barontius became a monk at Lonrey near Bourges in France. As a result of a vision he became a hermit, set out for Italy, and settled near Pistoia. There he lived very ascetically with another monk, called Desiderius, who is also honoured as a saint.
  9. See also: Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). St. Kennocha, Virgin in Scotland. The Lives of the Saints. Volume III: March. 1866. (Bartleby.com).
  10. His service is celebrated on June 1.[1]
  11. His service is celebrated on September 26.[1]
  12. The Greek revolt was precipitated on March 25, 1821, when Bishop Germanos of Patras raised the flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese. The cry "Freedom or Death" became the motto of the revolution.[27]
    Some European newspapers of June and July 1821 published news of a declaration of revolution by Germanos either in Patras on 6 April/ 25 March 1821[28] or in the "Monastery of Velia Mountain" (Agia Lavra) on a non specified date.[29]
  13. The icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Burning Bush is commemorated at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.
  14. An ancient city, in the municipality of Xyniada.
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