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May 25 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective May25 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Feasts

Third Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (c. 850)May 25/June 7. Orthodox Calendar (ORTHOCHRISTIAN.COM).Great Synaxaristes: Μνήμη τρίτης εὑρέσεως τῆς τιμίας κεφαλῆς τοῦ προφήτου Προδρόμου καὶ Βαπτιστοῦ Ἰωάννου. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John. OCA - Lives of the Saints. ГЛАВА ИОАННА КРЕСТИТЕЛЯ. Открытая православная энциклопедия "Древо" (Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "The Tree") Retrieved: May 6, 2026.

Saints

Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others, at Dorostolum (302)June 7/May 25. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. PASICRATES AND VALENTIO, MM. (UNCERTAIN DATE.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifth: May. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 342-343. Hieromartyr Therapontus, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century)Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus. OCA - Lives of the Saints. ФЕРАПОНТ КИПРСКИЙ, СВЯЩЕННОМУЧЕНИК. Открытая православная энциклопедия "Древо" (Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "The Tree") Retrieved: May 6, 2026. Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ὀλβιανός. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra (Ed.). THE SYNAXARION: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church: VOLUME FIVE - May, June. Transl. from the French by Mother Maria (Rule) and Mother Joanna (Burton). Holy Convent of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Ormylia (Chalkidike), 2005. p. 272. (see also: May 29) Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th century) ДОДО ГАРЕДЖИЙСКИЙ. Открытая православная энциклопедия "Древо" (Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "The Tree") Retrieved: May 6, 2026. (see also: May 17)

Pre-Schism Western saints

Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome. OCA - Lives of the Saints.May 25. The Roman Martyrology.May 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. URBAN I., POPE, M. (A.D. 230.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifth: May. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 341-342. Martyr Celestine, in Rome, severely tortured with hot irons.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Κελεστίνος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Μιλάνου. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus, brothers martyred near Évreux, France (c. 384)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάξιμος καὶ Βικτωρίνος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. MAXIMUS AND VENERANDUS, MM. (ABOUT A.D. 512.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifth: May. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 343. Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζηνόβιος Ἐπίσκοπος Φλωρεντίας. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Leo of Troyes (Saint-Lyé), monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550) Saint Léon, Abbé de Mantenay (+ 550). Nominis. Retrieved: May 6, 2026. Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. INJURIOSUS AND SCHOLASTICA. (CIRC. A.D. 500.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifth: May. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 344-345. Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλδέλμος Ἐπίσκοπος Σέρμπορν. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ALDHELM, B. OF SHERBORNE. (A.D. 709.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifth: May. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 346-350. Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh Abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "ARTICLE I.—ST. DUNCHADH, ABBOT OF IONA, IN SCOTLAND. [SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES.]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. V. Dublin, 1875. pp. 562-565. Venerable Bede the Confessor, Hieromonk of Wearmouth-Jarrow (735) (see also: May 27 - East) 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)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Σκιότα. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ πρίγκιπας. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ὁσία Θέκλα τοῦ Περεγιασλάβλ. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Thaddeus, Archimandrite, of Svatogorsk Monastery (1758) Saint Innocent (Borisov), Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰννοκέντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Χερσῶνος. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.RUSSIAN CHURCH ADDS 30 LOCALLY-VENERATED SAINTS TO CHURCH-WIDE CALENDAR. Orthodox Christianity. December 1, 2017. Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:Great Synaxaristes: Σύναξις τῶν Ἁγίων τῆς Βολυνίας. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.

New martyrs and confessors

Virgin-Martyr Elena (Korobkova) (1938) 25 мая (ст.ст.) 7 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). ЕЛЕНА (КОРОБКОВА). Открытая православная энциклопедия "Древо" (Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "The Tree") Retrieved: May 6, 2026. New Martyr Tavrion (Tolokontsev), Monk, of Veliki Ustiug (1939) ТАВРИОН (ТОЛОКОНЦЕВ). Открытая православная энциклопедия "Древо" (Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "The Tree") Retrieved: May 6, 2026. 1,290 New Martyrs of Piva, Montenegro, killed by the Nazis (1943)New Martyrs of the Piva canonized. The Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church. 9. June 2017 - 13:57. Retrieved: May 6, 2026.

Other commemorations

Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831 (1831) Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (Stratonicus in monasticism) (1836) Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)Great Synaxaristes: Μνήμη εὐρέσεως τῆς ἱερᾶς εἰκόνος τοῦ Ἁγίου Μεγαλομάρτυρος Δημητρίου τοῦ Μυροβλύτου. 25 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

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References

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