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Today's feasts May 5: Great-Martyr Irene of Thessaloniki (4th c.); Martyrs Irenaeus, Pellegrinus and Irene, at Thessaloniki (284–305); Martyrs Neophytus, Gaius, and Gaianus; St. Eulogius the Confessor, bishop of Edessa (ca. 386); Saints Martin and Heraclius, of Illyria (4th c.); Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, bishop of Madytos on the Hellespont (ca. 990); Martyr Jovinian, the lector of St. Peregrine of Auxerre (ca.304); Saint Brito (Britonius) (386); Saint Nectarius of Vienne, bishop of Vienne (ca.445); Saint Nicetus of Vienne, fifteenth bishop of Vienne (ca.449); Saint Hilarion, Archbishop of Arles (449); Saint Geruntius of Milan (470); Martyr Crescentiana of Rome (5th c.) Saint Hydrock (Hydroc) of Cornwall (5th c.); Saint Sacerdos of Saguntum (ca.560); Saint Waldrada, first abbess of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains in Metz in France (ca.620); Saint Maurontius of Douai (Maurontus, Mauront), founded monastery at Breuil-sur-lys near Douai (701); Saint Echa of Crayke, (Etha), Anglo-Saxon priest and monk-hermit at Crayke, near York, England (767); Saints Barlaam of Serpukhov and Gideon of Serpukhov (1377); New Monk-martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1426); Saint Adrian, Abbot of Monza Monastery (1619); New Hieromartyr Nicholas, priest (1919); New Hieromartyr Platon of Banja Luka (1941); Other Commemorations: Translation of the relics (980) of Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709); Uncovering of the relics (1613) of Saint James of Zheleznoborov, abbot of Zhelezny Bor (1442); Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Inexhaustible Cup” (1878). 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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