May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) explained

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)^{[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]
• 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]}
• Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:
  • Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.^[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]

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 Μαΐου. 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).

Notes and References

1. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3376/sxsaintinfo.aspx Μνήμη τρίτης εὑρέσεως τῆς τιμίας κεφαλῆς τοῦ προφήτου Προδρόμου καὶ Βαπτιστοῦ Ἰωάννου
2. Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
3. http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2011&today=7&month=6&trp=0&tzo=-4 June 7/May 25
4. Hieromartyr Therapon the Bishop of Cyprus. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
5. May 25/June 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
6. A Manual of Eastern Orthodox Prayers. St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1997. p.105.
7. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3381/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάξιμος καὶ Βικτωρίνος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες
8. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3378/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ὀλβιανός
9. Hieromartyr Urban the Pope of Rome. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
10. http://www.breviary.net/martyrology/mart05/mart0525.htm May 25
11. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3377/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Κελεστίνος ὁ Μάρτυρας
12. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3379/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Μιλάνου
13. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3380/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζηνόβιος Ἐπίσκοπος Φλωρεντίας
14. May 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
15. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3382/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλδέλμος Ἐπίσκοπος Σέρμπορν
16. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3383/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Σκιότα
17. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3384/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ πρίγκιπας
18. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3385/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ὁσία Θέκλα τοῦ Περεγιασλάβλ
19. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3386/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰννοκέντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Χερσῶνος
20. RUSSIAN CHURCH ADDS 30 LOCALLY-VENERATED SAINTS TO CHURCH-WIDE CALENDAR. Orthodox Christianity. December 1, 2017.
21. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3387/sxsaintinfo.aspx Σύναξις τῶν Ἁγίων τῆς Βολυνίας
22. 25 мая (ст.ст.) 7 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
23. Icon of the Mother of God "the Helper of the sinners" from Koretsk. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
24. https://archive.today/20120629050507/http://www.pomog.org/index.html?http://www.pomog.org/saintlist.shtml Complete List of Saints
25. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3388/sxsaintinfo.aspx Μνήμη εὐρέσεως τῆς ἱερᾶς εἰκόνος τοῦ Ἁγίου Μεγαλομάρτυρος Δημητρίου τοῦ Μυροβλύτου
26. Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).