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Today's feasts June 1: Martyr Justin the Philosopher (Justin Martyr) at Rome (166); Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus), and Justus, with Justin Martyr (166); Martyr Neon, by beheading; Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace; Hieromartyr Phyrrhus the Virgin; Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222); Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250); Martyr Gerasimos; The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251); Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299); St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912); Martyrs Felinus and Gratinianus (250); Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others, at Autun (272); Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287); Martyr Juventius, in Rome; Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304); Martyr Secundus, at Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304); Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize Aquitaine, France; Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400); Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430); Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornwall), early bishop of Cornish origin who preached in Cornwall and Brittany (6th c.); Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch Canonicorum (ca.831); Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia in England (849); Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044); Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop of Oca-Valpuesta (ca.1044); Saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, Unmercenary physician of the Kiev Near Caves (1095); Saint Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437); Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696); Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia (Holy Fathers martyred by the Dagestanians): David, Gabriel, and Paul of the St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700); New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagalyuk), Bishop of Kharkov (1938); New Hieromartyr Basil, priest (1940); Virgin-martyr Vera (1940); Saint Justin Popovic, Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the plague through the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (ca. 1743); Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1975); Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908). 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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