August 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 26

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 7 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 25, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 12

Saints

 * Apostle Titus of the Seventy Disciples, first Bishop of Crete (1st century)
 * Saints Barses (378) and Eulogius (c. 386), Bishops of Edessa, and St. Protogenes, Bishop of Carrhae (c. 387), Confessors.
 * Saints John the Cappadocian (520) and Epiphanius (535), Patriarchs of Constantinople.
 * Saint Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople (552)
 * Saint John, Bishop of Karpathos (7th century)


 * Synaxis of Hierarchs of Crete, Bishops of Gortyna:
 * Cyril (c. 303)
 * Eumenius (7th century) (see also: September 18)
 * Andrew of Crete, Archbishop (740)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Geruntius of Italica, a missionary in Spain in the Apostolic Age, Bishop of Talco (Italica, near Seville) and martyr (c. 100)
 * Martyrs Eusebius, Pontian, Vincent and Peregrinus, in Rome (c. 192)
 * Saints Nemesius and Lucilla, a deacon, and his daughter martyred in Rome under Valerian (c. 260)
 * Saint Genesius of Rome (Genesius the Actor), an actor in Rome who took part in a satire on Orthodox baptism, was suddenly converted and martyred (c. 286 or c. 303)
 * Saint Genesius of Arles (Genès), martyr (303)
 * Saint Maginus (Magí), martyr (304)
 * Saint Marcian of Saignon, founder of the monastery of St Eusebius in Apt (485)
 * Saint Aredius of Limousin (Yrieix, Yriez), Gaul (591)
 * Saint Patricia of Naples, virgin (c. 665)
 * Saint Ebba the Elder, Abbess of Coldingham, Northumbria (683)
 * Saint Hunegund (c. 690)
 * Saint Warinus (Guarinus, Warren), son of St Sigrada, martyred in France by the tyrant Ebroin who was at war with his brother St Leodegarius (7th century)
 * Saint Gregory of Utrecht, Abbot of St. Martin Monastery in Utrecht (775)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Gennadius Scholarius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 1473)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Moses (Kozhin), Hieromonk of Solovki Monastery (1931)
 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Moschansky, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics (580) of Apostle Bartholomew (1st century) from Anastasiopolis to Lipari.
 * Translation of the relics (580?) of Martyr Sabbas of Venethalon (Venetalus) (1st century)


 * Translation of the relics (c. 860) of St. Hilda of Whitby (680)
 * Repose of Abbess Magdalene of Sevsk Convent (1848)
 * Repose of Monk Benjamin of Valaam (1848)
 * Repose of Abbot Nikon (Vorobiev) of Gzhatsk (1963)