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Today's feasts

January 1 2025:

Circumcision of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Saint Basil the Great
Saint Peter Mogila

Feasts: The Circumcision in the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ; Saints: Martyr Theodotus, by the sword; Martyr Basil of Ancyra (362); Saint Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder, bishop and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian (374); Saint Emilia, (mother of Sts. Basil the Great, Macrina the Younger (July 19), Gregory of Nyssa (January 10), Naucratius (June 8), Peter of Sebaste (January 9), and Theosebia the Deaconess (January 10)) (375); Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (379); Saint Theodosius of Tryglia, Abbot; Hieromartyr Concordius of Spoleto (ca. 175); Thirty soldier-martyrs in Rome, under Diocletian (ca.304); Martyr Telemachos (Almachius), killed by gladiators in the Roman amphitheatre (404); Saint Basil, Bishop of Aix en Provence (ca. 475); Saint Eugendus, fourth Abbot of Condat Abbey in the Jura Mountains (510); Saint Fanchea of Killeany (Fanchea of Rossory), sister of St Enda of Aran (ca. 520); Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa (533); Saint Justin of Chieti, bishop of Chieti, Italy (ca. 540); Saint Felix of Bourges, Bishop of Bourges (ca. 580); Saint Connat (Comnatan), Abbess of Kildare Abbey in Ireland (ca. 590); Saint Maelrhys, a saint on Bardsey Island in Wales (6th c.); Saint Clarus, Abbot of St. Marcellus Monastery in Vienne, Gaul (ca. 660); Saint Cúan (Mochua, Moncan), Irish abbot, founder of many churches and monasteries in Ireland, (752); Saint Peter of Atroa (Peter the Standard-Bearer), Abbot, opponent of iconoclasm (837) (see also [[January 3 - East_);_ Saint William of Dijon (William of Volpiano), Italian monastic reformer and architect (1031); Saint Peter Mogila, Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halych and all Rus’, Archimandrite of the Kyivan Caves Lavra (1646) (see also December 31); New Martyr Peter of Tripolis in the Peloponnesus, at Temisi in Asia Minor (1776); Saint Athanasius (Volkhovsky), Bishop of Mohyliv, Wonderworker of Poltava (1801); New Hieromartyr Jeremiah (1918); New Hieromartyrs Platon (Kulbush), Bishop of Tallinn (Revel), Estonia, and with him Protopresbyters Michael (Blaive) and Nicholas (Bezhanitsky) (1919); New Hieromartyrs Alexander (Trapitsyn), Archbishop of Samara, and with him priests: John (Smirnov), Alexander (Ivanov), Alexander (Organov), John (Suldin), Trophimus (Miachin), Viacheslav, Basil and James (1938).

( December 19 2024: Julian Calendar )

Martyr Boniface of Tarsus, at Tarsus in Cilicia (290), and Righteous Aglae (Aglais, Aglaida) of Rome (ca.303); Martyrs Elias, Probus, and Ares the Egyptians, in Cilicia (308); Martyrs Polyeuctus at Caesarea in Cappadocia, and the Deacon Timothy at Mauretania, by fire (309); Martyrs Eutychios and Thessaloniki, and with them 200 men and 70 women, by the sword; Martyr Tryphon, by hanging; Martyrs Hermylus and Phocas; Hieromartyr Capito (Capiton), Bishop of Cherson (4th c.); Righteous Gregentios of Himyaritia (Gregentios of Taphar, Gregentius of Ethiopia, Gregory of Omirits), Missionary Archbishop of the Himyarite Kingdom and Wonderworker (552); Saint Boniface the Merciful, Bishop of Ferentino (6th c.); Saints George the Scribe, and Sabbas, monks of Khakhuli Monastery (11th c.); Saint Fausta of Sirmium, the mother of St Anastasia of Sirmium (3rd c.); Saint Anastasius I, Pope of Rome (401); Saint Avitus (or Adjutus), Abbot of Micy near Orleans in France, renowned for the spirit of prophecy; Saint Manirus, one of the Apostles of the north of Scotland; Saint Gregory of Auxerre, the twelfth bishop of Auxerre in France and Confessor (ca.540); Saint Ribert (Ribarius), seventeenth Abbot of Saint-Oyend in France, he is venerated in Franche-Comté (ca.790); Venerable Elias of Murom, Wonder-worker of the Kiev Caves (1188); Saint Volodymyr Veselovsky (1974); Saint Seraphim (Romantsov), Schema-Archimandrite of Sukhumi (Abkhazia), Elder of Glinsk Monastery (1975);**Other Commemorations:**Repose of Blessed Hieromonk Hermogenes, founder of Kirensk and Albazin Monasteries in Siberia (1690).

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The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."

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