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Today's feasts January 28 2020: Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (373); Venerable Palladius the Hermit of Antioch, Wonderworker (4th century) The Holy Two Martyrs, mother and daughter, by the sword; Martyr Charita; Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh and ascetic writer (7th century); Venerable James the Ascetic, of Porphyreon (Porphyrianos) in Palestine; Saint George the Martyr (1015); Venerable Ephraim of Novotorzhsk, Abbot and Wonderworker of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery, Novotorzhok (1053) Saint Flavian, a deputy-prefect of Rome, martyred in Civita Vecchia in Italy under Diocletian (c. 304); Saint Valerius, Bishop of Saragossa in Spain, with whom St Vincent served as deacon (315); Cannera (Cainder, Kinnera), Virgin on the Isle of Inniscathy, Bantry Bay, Ireland (c. 530); Saint John of Reomans (John of Reomay (Réomé)), in Gaul (544); Saints Brigid and Maura, daughters of a Scottish Chieftain, Martyrs in Picardy while on pilgrimage to Rome; Saint Antimus, one of the first Abbots of Brantôme in France (8th century); Saint Glastian, patron saint of Kinglassie in Fife in Scotland (830); Saint Odo of Beauvais, Bishop of Beauvais (880); Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (c. 1098); Venerable Theodosius, founder of Totma Monastery, Vologda (1568); Saint Theodore, Spanish presbyter, Confessor (1933); New Hiero-confessor Arsenius (Stadnitsky), Metropolitan of Tashkent and Turkestan (1936); New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Sadkovsky), Bishop of Skopin (1938); New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pishchulin, Priest, at Simferopol (1938); New Hieromartyr Bartholomew (Ratnykh), Hieromonk, at Feodosia, Crimea (1938); Virgin-martyr Olga (1938); New Hiero-confessor Archimandrite Leontius (Stasevich) of Jablechna (Poland), who reposed at Mikhailovsk, Ivanovo, Russia (1972); Other Commemorations: "Sumorin Totma" Icon of the Mother of God (16th century). ( January 15 2020: Julian Calendar ) Monk-martyr Pansophius of Alexandria (ca.250); Martyrs Elpidios, Danax, and Helen; Venerable Paul of Thebes (341); Holy 6 Monk-Martyrs of the Desert, who reposed peacefully; Venerable Salome of Ujarma, and Venerable Perozhavra of Sivnia, Georgia (ca.361); Venerable Alexander the Ever-Vigilant, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), at Gomon, north-eastern Bithynia (ca.426-427); Venerable John Calabytes, the "hut-dweller" of Constantinople (ca.450); Venerable Prochorus, Abbot in the Vranski Desert on the River Pchinja, in Bulgaria (10th c.); Virgin-martyr Secundina, scourged to death near Rome in the persecution of Decius (ca.250); Martyr Ephysius of Sardinia (303); Saint Maximus, Bishop of Nola (ca. 250); Saints Maura and Britta, two holy virgins in France (4th c.); Saint Eugippius, ordained priest at Rome, was biographer of St Severinus of Noricum (535); Saint Íte of Killeedy (Ytha, Meda), Hermitess in Ireland and foster-mother of Saint Brendan (570); Saint Maurus, disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia (584); Saint Lleudadd (Laudatus), first Abbot of Bardsey Island, Wales (6th c.); Saint Sawyl Penuchel, the father of Asaph of Wales (6th c.); Saint Tarsicia of Rodez, an Anchoress who lived near Rodez, sister of St. Ferréol of Uzès (600); Saint Malard, Bishop of Chartres, present at the Council of Châlon-sur-Saône in 650 (ca.650); Saint Bonitus, Bishop of Clermont and Confessor, later a monk (ca.710); Saint Emebert, an early Bishop of Cambrai (ca.710); Saint Ceolwulf of Northumbria, King of Northumbria, monk of Lindisfarne (764); Saint Blaithmaic (Blathmac), an Abbot from Ireland, went to Scotland and was martyred by the Danes on the altar steps of the church of Iona (ca.823); Venerable Gabriel, founder of Lesnovo Monastery, Serbia-Bulgaria (12th c.); Venerable Barlaam of Keret Lake (16th c.) New Hieromartyr Benjamin, Bishop of Romanov (1930); New Hieromartyr Michael, Priest (1942). 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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