August 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# August 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 26

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 7 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 25, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 12

## Saints

* Apostle Titus of the Seventy Disciples, first Bishop of Crete (1st century)
* Saints Barses (378) and Eulogius (c. 386), Bishops of Edessa, and St. Protogenes, Bishop of Carrhae (c. 387), Confessors.
* Saints John the Cappadocian (520) and Epiphanius (535), Patriarchs of Constantinople.
* Saint Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople (552)
* Saint John, Bishop of Karpathos (7th century)
* Synaxis of Hierarchs of Crete, Bishops of Gortyna:

   * Cyril (c. 303)

   * Eumenius (7th century) (see also: September 18)

   * Andrew of Crete, Archbishop (740)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Geruntius of Italica, a missionary in Spain in the Apostolic Age, Bishop of Talco (Italica, near Seville) and martyr (c. 100)
* Martyrs Eusebius, Pontian, Vincent and Peregrinus, in Rome (c. 192)
* Saints Nemesius and Lucilla, a deacon, and his daughter martyred in Rome under Valerian (c. 260)
* Saint Genesius of Rome (Genesius the Actor), an actor in Rome who took part in a satire on Orthodox baptism, was suddenly converted and martyred (c. 286 or c. 303)
* Saint Genesius of Arles (Genès), martyr (303)
* Saint Maginus (Magí), martyr (304)
* Saint Marcian of Saignon, founder of the monastery of St Eusebius in Apt (485)
* Saint Aredius of Limousin (Yrieix, Yriez), Gaul (591)
* Saint Patricia of Naples, virgin (c. 665)
* Saint Ebba the Elder, Abbess of Coldingham, Northumbria (683)
* Saint Hunegund (c. 690)
* Saint Warinus (Guarinus, Warren), son of St Sigrada, martyred in France by the tyrant Ebroin who was at war with his brother St Leodegarius (7th century)
* Saint Gregory of Utrecht, Abbot of St. Martin Monastery in Utrecht (775)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Gennadius Scholarius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 1473)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Moses (Kozhin), Hieromonk of Solovki Monastery (1931)
* New Hieromartyr Vladimir Moschansky, Priest (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (580) of Apostle Bartholomew (1st century) from Anastasiopolis to Lipari.
* Translation of the relics (580?) of Martyr Sabbas of Venethalon (Venetalus) (1st century)
* Translation of the relics (c. 860) of St. Hilda of Whitby (680)
* Repose of Abbess Magdalene of Sevsk Convent (1848)
* Repose of Monk Benjamin of Valaam (1848)
* Repose of Abbot Nikon (Vorobiev) of Gzhatsk (1963)

## Icon gallery

* Apostle Titus, first Bishop of Crete.
