April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 26

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

 * Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark, first Bishop of Alexandria (63)


 * Saint Anianas, second Bishop of Alexandria (86)
 * Martyr Nike (Nice), by the sword (303)
 * Hieromartyr Stephen II, Patriarch of Antioch (479)
 * Saint Macedonius II, Patriarch of Constantinople (516)
 * The Venebrable Eight Anchorites who were martyred by the sword.

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

 * Saint Sylvester of Obnorsk, Abbot of Obnora Monastery (1379)
 * Venerable Basil, Elder of Poiana Mărului, Romania (1767)
 * Venerable Bassian (Balashevich) the Blind, Hiero-schema-monk of the Kiev Caves (1827)

New martyrs and confessors

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

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the Consecration of the Church of the all-praised Apostle Peter, located near the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
 * Icon of the Mother of God of Constantinople (1071)
 * Repose of Elder Philotheus (Zervakos) of Paros (1980)