July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# 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.
* The Holy Martyrs of Lyons: (c. 177) (see also: June 2)

   * Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons, Sanctus the Deacon, Maturus, Attalus, Blandina, Vettius, Epagathus, Biblis, Ponticus, Alexander, and those with them, at Lyon.
* Righteous Olympias the Deaconess, of Constantinople (410)
* Virgin-martyr Eupraxia of Tabennisi (413) (see also: March 13)
* Saint Elias of Thessaloniki, Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, who played a leading role in the Fifth Ecumenical Council (c. 553)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint James the Greater, the son of Zebedee and brother of St John the Evangelist (44) (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)
* Saint Nessan (Neasán), a convert of St Patrick of Ireland, he became Abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret, Mungret) in Wexford (5th century)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* Saint Iraida Tikhova, Confessor (1967)

## Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the Holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, who refuted the doctrines of Origen (553)

## Icon gallery

* Righteous Anna, Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos.
* 19th century mosaic icon in the Basilica of Fourvière: The Holy Martyrs of Lyons (in top register).
* St. Olympias the Deaconess.
* St. Eupraxia carrying heavy rocks as a penitential labor.
* Reliquary of St. James the Greater (Santiago de Compostela Cathedral).
* The Martyrdom of St. Cucuphas.
* St Nessan's Abbey Church, Mungret, Limerick.
* Venerable Macarius of Unzha.
* St. Gregory (Kallidis), Metropolitan of Thessalonica and of Heraclea.
