May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 26

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

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)^[1][2]

Saints

• Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others at Dorostolum (302)^[3]
• Hieromartyr Therapont of Cyprus, bishop (300-305)^[4][5][6] (see also: May 27)
• Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus (384)^[7]
• Saint Dodo, prince of Georgia, monk of Gareji (596)^[5] (see also: May 17, June 2)
• Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk.^[8]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)^[9][10]
• Martyr Celestine, in Rome.^[11]
• Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)^[10][12]
• Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)^[10][13]
• Saint Leo of Troyes, monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550)^[10][14]
• Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)^[14]
• Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)^[10][15]
• Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)^[14]
• Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862)^[14]
• Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881)^[14]
• Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936)^[14]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Skiota of Georgia (c. 13th century)^[16]
• Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)^{[17][note 2]}
• Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)^[18]
• Saint Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857)^{[3][19][20][note 3]}
• Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:
  • Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.^[3][21]

New martyrs and confessors

• Virgin-Martyr Helen Korobkova (1938)^[3][22]
• Hieromartyr Tavrion Tolokontsevo (1939)^[3][22]

Other commemorations

• Icon of the Mother of God "the Helper of the sinners" from Koretsk.^[23]
• Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831)^[3][5]
• Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (1836)^[5][24]
• Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)^[25]
• Commemoration of Protopresbyter John Labunsky of Nizhyn (1945)^{[26][note 4]}

Icon gallery

• 
  Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (Menologion of Basil II)
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  Icon of the Third Finding of the Head of John the Forerunner (Konetz, 19th century, Russia)
• 
  A portrait of Pope Saint Urban I.
• 
  Relics of Saint Dionysius, Bishop of Milan (Cathedral of Milan).
• 
  St. Stained glass window of St. Aldhelm, installed in St Aldhelm's Catholic Church, Malmesbury.
• 
  St. Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica.

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. See: (in Russian): Дмитрий Андреевич.
3. (in Greek) "Ἐπισκόπος Χερσῶνος καὶ πάσης Ταυρίδος."
4. See also April 23.