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.July 25/August 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Κοίμηση τῆς Ἁγίας Ἄννας Μητέρας τῆς Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου. 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 25 Ιουλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).Dormition of the Righteous Anna, the Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos. OCA - Lives of the Saints. The Holy Martyrs of Lyon: (c. 177)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Σάκτος (ἢ Σάγκτος), Ματοῦρος, Ἄτταλος καὶ Βλανδίνα οἱ Μάρτυρες. 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.July 25. The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts. (see also: June 2) Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon, Sanctus the Deacon, Maturus, Attalus, Blandina, Vettius, Epagathus, Biblis, Ponticus, Alexander, and those with them, at Lyon. Righteous Olympias the Deaconess, of Constantinople (410)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ὁσία Ὀλυμπιάδα ἡ Διακόνισσα. 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Holy Woman Olympias (Olympiada) the Deaconess of Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Virgin-martyr Eupraxia of Tabennisi (413)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ὁσία Εὐπραξία. 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Virginmartyr Eupraxia of Tabenna. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: March 13) Saint Elias of Thessaloniki, Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, who played a leading role in the Fifth Ecumenical Council (c. 553)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἠλίας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκης. 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. 25/07/. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Pre-Schism Western saints Saint James the Greater, the son of Zebedee and brother of St John the Evangelist (44)July 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. JAMES THE GREAT, AP. M.(A.D. 44.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Eighth: July - Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 546-553.Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article V.—Festival of St. James the Greater, Apostle." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. VII. Dublin, 1875. pp. 390-391. (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)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. CUCUPHAS, M. (ABOUT A.D. 303.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Eighth: July - Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 559-561. Saint Nessan (Neasán), a convert of St Patrick of Ireland, he became Abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret, Mungret) in Wexford (5th century)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article II.—St. Nessan, of Mungret, County of Limerick, [Fifth and Sixth Centuries]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. VII. Dublin, 1875. pp. 382-386. 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)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. GLODESIND, V. (ABOUT A.D. 608.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Eighth: July - Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 562-563. 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)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος Ζελτοβόδας ὁ Θαυματουργός (Ρῶσος). 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Macarius the Abbot of Zheltovod and Unzha. OCA - Lives of the Saints.August 7 / July 25. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). 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) 7 августа (25 июля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 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) Свети свештеномученици Родољуб и Вукосав, Кулеенвекуфски и. Retrieved: 6 April 2019. Saint Iraida Tikhova, Confessor (1967) ТИХОВА ИРАИДА ОСИПОВНА. Открытая православная энциклопедия "Древо" (Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "The Tree").

Other commemorations Commemoration of the Holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, who refuted the doctrines of Origen (553)Great Synaxaristes: Μνήμη Ε’ Οἰκουμενικῆς Συνόδου. 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Commemoration of the Holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

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Sources July 25/August 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). August 7 / July 25. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). July 25. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. July 25. The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). pp. 54–55. The Twenty-Fifth Day of the Month of July. Orthodoxy in China. July 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 219–220. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 357–358.

Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 25 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 25 Ιουλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). 25/07/. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources 7 августа (25 июля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 25 июля по старому стилю / 7 августа по новому стилю. СПЖ "Союз православных журналистов". . 25 июля (ст.ст.) 7 августа (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).