May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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)

Icon gallery

File:Finding the head of John the Baptist (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (Menologion of Basil II) File:E obretenie glavy Ioanna Predtechi. Konec XIX v. Rossiya.jpg|Icon of the Third Finding of the Head of John the Forerunner (Konetz, 19th century, Russia) File:A portrait of Pope Saint Urban I.jpg|A portrait of Pope Saint Urban I. File:San Dionigi di Milano 1.jpg|Relics of Saint Dionysius, Bishop of Milan (Cathedral of Milan). File:Aldhelm.malmesbury.arp.jpg|St. Stained glass window of St. Aldhelm, installed in St Aldhelm's Catholic Church, Malmesbury. File:Archbishop Innocenty Borisov.jpg|St. Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica.

Notes

References

Sources

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• Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• May 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 25. The Roman Martyrology. Greek Sources
• Great Synaxaristes: 25 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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