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Today's feasts July 21 2018: Saint Symeon of Emesa, Fool-for-Christ, and his fellow faster Saint John; Prophet Ezekiel; Saint Onuphrius the Silent of the Kiev Caves; Saint Onesimus, recluse of the Kiev Caves; Martyr Victor of Marseilles; Saint Anna, mother of Saint Sava the Serbian; Martyrs Theophilus, Justus, Trophimus, Mathias, Eugene, Theodore, and George; three martyrs of Melitene; Martyr Acacius of Constantinople; Saint Eleutherius of Dry Hill; Saint Parthenius of Radovizlios, Bishop; Martyr Salome of Georgia; Martyr Ilia Chavchavadze of Georgia (see also July 19); Saint Hilarion of Tvali; Saint Paxedes, virgin of Rome; Armatia Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos; opening of the relics of Saint Anna of Kashin ( July 8 2018: Julian Calendar ) Holy Greatmartyr Procopius of Caesarea, in Palestine; Martyr Theodosia, mother of Greatmartyr Procopius; Righteous Procopius the Fool-for-Christ and Wonder-worker of Ustiug, Vologda; New-Martyr Anastasius at Constantinople; Venerable Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Macedonia and Pantocrator Monastery on Mt Athos; Saint Grimbald, Hieromonk of Winchester; Virgin-Martyr Urith of Chittlehampton; twelve women of senatorial rank; Hieromartyr Killian, Bishop of Würzburg; Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God; Icon of the Mother of God Weeping "Tender Feeling" in Novgorod; Miracle of the Annunciation Icon of the Mother of God at Ustiug; Icon of the Mother of God "Our Lady of Sitka"; Edgar the Peaceable, King of England; Morwenna, Virgin of Cornwall; translation of the relics of Saint Withburga, Hermitess of East Dereham, sister of Saint Etheldreda (see June 23) 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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