February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 26

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 10 (March 9 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 12.

## Saints

* Martyr Alexander, at Marcianopolis in Thracia (c. 305)
* Martyr Anthony, by being burned alive.
* Saint Theodore, Fool-for-Christ.
* Hieromartyr Reginus of Skopelos, Bishop of the isle of Skopelos (355)
* Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Aipeia in Cyprus.
* Venerable Paphnutius of Kephala, monk, contemporary of St. Anthony the Great (4th century)
* Saint Tarasius of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (806)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Donatus, Justus, Herena and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs who suffered in North Africa under Decius (3rd century)
* Saint Ethelbert, King of Kent (616)
* Saint Aldetrudis (Adeltrudis) of Maubeuge Abbey (c. 696)
* Saint Walburga, Abbess of Heidenheim (779)
* Saint Victor of St. Gall, a monk at St Gall in Switzerland who became a hermit in the Vosges in France where he reposed (995)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Sylvester (Olshevsky), Archbishop of Omsk and Pavlodar (1920) (see also: July 3)
* New Hieromartyr Alexander Vinogradov, Priest (1938)
* Virgin-Martyr Mstislava Fokinoi (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Leo Korobczuk, Priest, of Laskov (Chełm and Podlasie), Poland (1944)
* New Hieromartyr Nicholas Troitsky, Priest (1945)

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Blessed Pashenka of Nizhny Novgorod (1934)

## Icon gallery

* Saint Tarasius of Constantinople.
* Saint Walburga.
* New Hieromartyr Sylvester (Olshevsky), Archbishop of Omsk and Pavlodar.
* New Hieromartyr Leo Korobczuk.
