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Today's feasts October 21 2019: Saint Hilarion the Great; Martyrs Dasius, Gaius, and Zoticus at Nicomedia; Saints Theophilus and James, Abbots of Omutch (Pskov); Saint Hilarion, Abbot of Pskov; Saint Hilarion, Schemamonk of the Kiev Caves; Saint Hilarion, Metropolitan of Kiev; Saint Philotheus of Dionysiou of Mount Athos; New-Martyr John of the Peloponnesos; Saints Vissarion (Bessarion) Sarai, hieromonk, and Sophronie of Ciorara, monk, confessors, and Saint Oprea of Salistie, martyred by the Latins in Romania; New-Martyrs Andrew, Stephen, Paul, and Peter; Martyrs Theodota and Socrates the priest in Ancyra; Monk-martyr Eucrates; Saint Baruch, monk; Monk-martyr Zachariah; Martyr Azes; Saint Christodoulos the Wonder-worker of Patmos; Saint Condedos, Hermit of Fontenelle; Saint Tuda, Bishop of Lindisfarne; Saint Fintan Munnu, Abbot of Taghmon; repose and translation of the relics of Saint Hilarion, Bishop of Meglin in Bulgaria; Venerable Alexis (Kabaliuk), Apostle of Carpatho-Russia (see also December 2). Other events: name day of Elder Hilarion of Optina ( October 8 2019: Julian Calendar ) Saint Pelagia the Penitent; Virgin-Martyr Pelagia of Antioch; Saint Thais (Taisia) of Egypt; Saint Dositheus, Abbot of Verkneostrov (Pskov); Saint Tryphon, Abbot of Vyatka; Martyr Ignatius of Bulgaria; New-Martyr Ignatius the monk of Prodromou Skete on Mount Athos; Venerable Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople; Hieromartyr Artemon; Saint Keyne, Hermitess of Cornwall; Saint Iwi, Hierodeacon of Lindisfarne; Saint Triduana, Nun of Restalrig, Scotland; Saint Triduana, Hermitess of Restalrig, Scotland; translation of the relics of Saint Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne and Enlightener of Northumbria; translation of the relics of Saint Ceolfrith, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow 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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