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March 28 2025:

ApostleHerodion of Patras of theSeventy Apostles (1st century);Saints Priscus, Malchus, and Alexander, of Caesarea of Palestine (259);Martyrs Jonah and Barachisius and those with them in Persia (330): Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas (Marotas), Narses, Elias, Marinus (Mares), Abibus, Sembeeth (Sivsithina), and Sabbas (see alsoMarch 29);Venerable Hesychios the Theologian of Jerusalem (434), disciple of St. Gregory the Theologian.;VenerableHilarion the New, Abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (754);Saint Stephen the Confessor andWonderworker, Abbot of Tryglia (815) (see alsoMarch 26);Hieromartyrs George, Bishop of Zagora, Parodus and Peter, priests, and Martyr Prince Enravota-Boyan (833), of Bulgaria;Martyrs Rogatus, Successus and Companions, a group of eighteen martyrs in North Africa;SaintSixtus III of Rome (Xystus), Pope of Rome from 432;Saint Spes (Speus), an Abbot of Campi in central Italy (c. 513);Saint Gontram (Gunthrammus), a repentant King of Burgundy in France (592);Saint Gundelindis (Guendelindis), a daughter of the Duke of Alsace and niece of St Ottilia, whom she succeeded as Abbess of Niedermünster Abbey (c. 750);Saint Tutilo (Tuotilo), a gifted and artistic monk at St Gall Abbey in Switzerland (c. 915);Saint Conon of Naso, a monk and Abbot of the Greek monastery of Nesi in Sicily (1236);Venerable Martyr Eustratius of theKiev Caves Monastery (1096);Saint Mstislav, Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, son of Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky (1173);Venerable Hilarion of Pskov, monk, of Lake Gdov (1476);Venerable Dionysius the Merciful, Bishop of Larissa (1510);Venerable Jonah, Abbot of Klimets Monastery, Olonets (1534);Saint John, Bishop of Manglisi, Georgia (1751);New Hieromartyr Nicholas Postnikov, Priest(1931);New Hieromartyr Basil Malinin, Priest (1938);Martyr John Chernoff (1939);New Hieromartyr Peter Ochryzko, Priest of Chartoviec (Chełm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944);Other Commemorations:Icon of the Mother of God of "the Sign" (see alsoNovember 27)'Repose of Abbot Adrian (in schema Alexis) of Konevits Monastery (1812);Repose of Blessed Helen of Arzamas, disciple of Abbot Nazarius ofValaam Monastery (1820);

(March 15 2025:Julian Calendar )

HolyApostle Aristobulus of theSeventy, firstBishop of Britain; (1st c.);Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplios), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine (303);Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (270-275)Martyr Nicander of Egypt (305);Saint Hebarestes, steward of a church located in Jerusalem;Martyr Mancius (5th or 6th c.);Saint Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy (c. 555);Saint Probus of Rieti, Bishop of Rieti in central Italy (c. 571);SaintZacharias, Pope of Rome (752);Saint Leocritia (Lucretia), a holy virgin in Cordoba in Spain (859);Saint Nicander, monk, of Gorodetsk (Nizhni-Novgorod) (1603);New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792);Hieromartyr Parthenios, Deacon, at Didymoteicho (1805);New Hieromartyr Alexis Vinogradov, Protopresbyter of Tver (1938);New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest of Chimkent (1938);New Hieromartyr Michael Bogoslovsk, Protopresbyter of Simferopol-Crimea (1940);Other Commemorations:Commemoration of the deliverance of the island ofLefkada from the earthquake of 1938.

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