May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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)

Saints

 * Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others at Dorostolum (302)
 * Hieromartyr Therapont of Cyprus, bishop (300-305) (see also: May 27)
 * Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus (384)
 * Saint Dodo, prince of Georgia, monk of Gareji (596) (see also: May 17, June 2)
 * Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)
 * Martyr Celestine, in Rome.
 * Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)
 * Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)
 * Saint Leo of Troyes, monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550)
 * Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)
 * Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)
 * Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)
 * Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862)
 * Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881)
 * Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Skiota of Georgia (c. 13th century)
 * Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)
 * Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)
 * Saint Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857)
 * Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:
 * Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.

New martyrs and confessors

 * Virgin-Martyr Helen Korobkova (1938)
 * Hieromartyr Tavrion Tolokontsevo (1939)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God "the Helper of the sinners" from Koretsk.
 * Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831)
 * Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (1836)
 * Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)
 * Commemoration of Protopresbyter John Labunsky of Nizhyn (1945)