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May 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 27

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 13.

Saints

  • Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
  • Martyrs Abercius and Helen, children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st century)
  • Martyr Julius, Roman soldier, by beheading, at Dorostolum in Mysia (Asia Minor) (302)
  • Saint Synesius, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 5th century)
  • Venerable John of Psichaita the Confessor, of Constantinople (c. 825) <small>(see also: May 7)</small>

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Hieromartyr Zacharias, Bishop of Vienne, suffered under Trajan (106)
  • Hieromartyr Simitrius priest, and 22 other martyrs, who suffered under Antoninus Pius, at Rome (159)