April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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April 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 26

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes and Callista, in Syracuse in Sicily.
  • Saint Phaebadius (Fiari), a Bishop of Agen in the south of France, who succeeded in stamping out Arianism in Gaul, together with his friend St Hilary of Poitiers (c. 392)
  • Saint Maughold (Macaille), a disciple of Mel who became Bishop of Croghan in Offaly in Ireland, the patron saint of the Isle of Man (c. 489)
  • Saint Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon (501)
  • Saint Erminus, a monk at Lobbes Abbey in Belgium and later Abbot, Bishop and Confessor (737)
  • Saint Mella, the mother of two saints, Cannech and Tigernach, who became a nun and Abbess of Doire-Melle (Rossclogher Abbey), in County Leitrim (c. 780)
  • Saint Heribaldus, Monk and abbot of the monastery of St Germanus in Auxerre in France and later bishop of the same city (c. 857)
  • Saint Robert of Syracuse, Abbot of a monastery in Syracuse in Sicily (c. 1000)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • Hieromartyr Sergius Rokhletsov, Protopresbyter, of Veliky Ustyug (1938)

Other commemorations

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