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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 Lyon: (c. 177) <small>(see also: June 2)</small>

:* Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon, 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) <small>(see also: March 13)</small>
  • 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) <small>(see also: April 30 - East)</small>
  • Saints Florentius and Felix, two soldiers martyred under Maximinius the Thracian at Furcona near Aquila in the south of Italy (235)