April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 26

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

## Saints

* Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark, first Bishop of Alexandria (63)
* Saint Anianas, second Bishop of Alexandria (86)
* Martyr Nike (Nice), by the sword (303)
* Hieromartyr Stephen II, Patriarch of Antioch (479)
* Saint Macedonius II, Patriarch of Constantinople (516)
* The Venebrable Eight Anchorites who were martyred by the sword.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes and Callista, in Syracuse in Sicily.
* Saint Phaebadius (Fiari), a Bishop of Agen in the south of France, who succeeded in stamping out Arianism in Gaul, together with his friend St Hilary of Poitiers (c. 392)
* Saint Maughold (Macaille), a disciple of Mel who became Bishop of Croghan in Offaly in Ireland, the patron saint of the Isle of Man (c. 489)
* Saint Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon (501)
* Saint Erminus, a monk at Lobbes Abbey in Belgium and later Abbot, Bishop and Confessor (737)
* Saint Mella, the mother of two saints, Cannech and Tigernach, who became a nun and Abbess of Doire-Melle (Rossclogher Abbey), in County Leitrim (c. 780)
* Saint Heribaldus, Monk and abbot of the monastery of St Germanus in Auxerre in France and later bishop of the same city (c. 857)
* Saint Robert of Syracuse, Abbot of a monastery in Syracuse in Sicily (c. 1000)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Sylvester of Obnorsk, Abbot of Obnora Monastery (1379)
* Venerable Basil, Elder of Poiana Mărului, Romania (1767)
* Venerable Bassian (Balashevich) the Blind, Hiero-schema-monk of the Kiev Caves (1827)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Hieromartyr Sergius Rokhletsov, Protopresbyter, of Veliky Ustyug (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the Consecration of the Church of the all-praised Apostle Peter, located near the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
* Icon of the Mother of God of Constantinople (1071)
* Repose of Elder Philotheus (Zervakos) of Paros (1980)

## Icon gallery

* Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark.
* Saint Sylvester of Obnorsk.
