July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 24 - Eastern Orthodox calendar - July 26

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 7 by Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * The Dormition of the Righteous Anna, Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos.
 * The Holy Martyrs of Lyons: (c. 177)   (see also: June 2)
 * Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons, Sanctus the Deacon, Maturus, Attalus, Blandina, Vettius, Epagathus, Biblis, Ponticus, Alexander, and those with them, at Lyon.


 * Righteous Olympias the Deaconess, of Constantinople (410)
 * Virgin-martyr Eupraxia of Tabennisi (413)   (see also: March 13)
 * Saint Elias of Thessaloniki, Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, who played a leading role in the Fifth Ecumenical Council (c. 553)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint James the Greater, the son of Zebedee and brother of St John the Evangelist (44)   (see also: April 30 - East)
 * Saints Florentius and Felix, two soldiers martyred under Maximinius the Thracian at Furcona near Aquila in the south of Italy (235)
 * Martyr Cucuphas of Barcelona (Cucufate, Cugat, Guinefort, Qoqofas), a martyr of Spain (304)
 * Saint Nessan (Neasán), a convert of St Patrick of Ireland, he became Abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret, Mungret) in Wexford (5th century)
 * Saint Magnericus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (596)
 * Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), born in Beauvais in France, he became a hermit and later founded a monastery at Saint-Fuscien-aux-Bois ( fr ) (c. 600)
 * Saint Glodesinda of Metz, a nun in Metz in France, where she later became abbess (c. 608)
 * Saint Banthus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (7th century) (see also: July 28)
 * Saint Theodemir of Córdoba, a monk martyred in Córdoba in Spain under Abderrahman II (851)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Macarius of Zheltovod and Unzha, Abbot and Wonderworker (1444)
 * Venerable Christopher of Solvychegodsk in Vologda, Abbot (1572)
 * Saint Gregory (Kallidis), Metropolitan of Thessalonica and of Heraclea (1925) (see also: June 29)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Udintsev, Priest (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Alexander Sakharov, Priest (1927)
 * New Hieromartyr Theodore Tonkovid, Priest of Lovets, Pskov (1942)
 * New Hieromartyrs Vukosav Milanovic and Rodoljub Samardzic, of Kulen Vakuf, Serbia (1941-1945)
 * Saint Iraida Tikhova, Confessor (1967)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the Holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, who refuted the doctrines of Origen (553)