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Today's feasts May 30 2024: Saint Macrina the Elder, grandmother of St. Basil the Great (340); Saint Emmelia of Caesarea, mother of Saint Basil the Great (375) (see also January 1); Venerable Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383); Martyrs Aphrodisius, Agapius, Eusebios, Charalampos and Christina, in Nicomedia, by fire; Martyrs Romanos and Teletios (Meletius), in Nicomedia, by the sword; Martyr Euplius (Efplos); Martyr Natalios, by the sword; Martyr Barlaam of Caesarea in Cappadocia; Hieromartyr Eutyches (see also August 24); Saint Cyprian of Antioch, reposed in peace. Martyrs Gabinus and Crispulus, at Torres in Sardinia, Protomartyrs of Sardinia (130); Pope Saint Felix I, who was the first to condemn the heresy of Paul of Samosata (274); Saint Venantius of Gaul, elder brother of St Honoratus of Lérins (374); Saint Exuperantius (Esuperantio), Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (418); Saint Madelgisilus, Irish saint, disciple of St Fursey (655); Saint Anastasius of Pavia (680); Saint Hubert of Maastricht (Hugbert of Bretigny), the "Apostle of the Ardennes", first Bishop of Liège (727); Saint Gamo, monk and then Abbot of Brétigny near Noyon in France (8th c.); Saint Walstan, a farm labourer in Taverham and Costessey, remarkable for his charity (1016); Saint James, monk of Starotorzhok in Galich, Kostroma (15th-16th c.); Venerables Isaiah and Nikanor of Arkhangel'sk (16th-17th c.); Hieromartyr Basil, Priest (1942); Other Commemorations: Consecration of the Church of St. Euphemia in Dexiokratiana, Constantinople; Repose of Abbot Ephraim of Sarov (1778). ( May 17 2024: Julian Calendar ) Apostles Andronicus of Pannonia and his fellow labourer Saint Junia, of the Seventy Apostles (1st c.); Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon, soldiers, at Chalcedon (ca.286-305); Martyrs Adrion, Victor and Basilla, in Alexandria; Saint Theodoret of Antioch, Hieromartyr, (361–363); Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th c.); Saint Stephen the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (893); Saint Restituta the martyr, in Carthage (255 or 304); Martyrs Heradius, Paul, and Aquilinus, near Lake Geneva (284-305); Saint Maden (Madern, Madron, Madrona), Monk of Cornwall (ca.545); Saint Cathán (Catan, Chattan, Cadan), Bishop in the Isle of Bute in Scotland (6th c.); Saint Mailduf (Maidulph, Maelduib), founder of Malmesbury Abbey (673); Saint Gerebernus (Gerebern, Gerebrand), Hieromartyr, priest from Ireland who accompanied St Dymphna to Belgium and shared in her martyrdom (7th c.); Saint Rasso (Ratho), ascetic, founder of a Benedictine abbey at Wörth, later named Grafrath after him (953); Venerable Andronik the Grave-Digger, of the the Kyivan Zverynetsky Monastery (1096); Venerable Eudokia (in monasticism Euphrosyne), Grand-Duchess of Moscow (1407); Saints Nectarius the God-bearer (1550) and Theophanes (1544) the gate-keepers, brothers, of Varlaam of Meteora; Great-martyr Nicholas of Sofia (1555); Saint Nicolas (Basdanis) the New Martyr (St Nicolas the Vlach) (1617); Saint Athanasius the New, Bishop and Wonderworker of Christianopolis (1707 or 1735); New Martyr Eleazar (Lazarus), of the town of Vasen in Russia, martyred for the faith near Olonets (18th c.); Saint Jonah Atamansky, Archpriest of Odessa, Wonderworker (1924); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the Fall of Jerusalem in 614 AD to the Persians, with the loss of the True Cross, damage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by fire, and the martyrdom of over 65,000 Christians (614); Translation of the relics (1551) of Saint Adrian of Ondrusov (Valaam), Abbot (1549). Featured article The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora." Recently featured: Raphael Morgan, Holy Week, Georges Florovsky, Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria, Paschal Homily, Pachomius the Great. View all featured articles.

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