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Today's feasts February 3 2026: Synaxis of Ss. Simeon and Anna; Postfeast of the Meeting of the Lord; Saint Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, Apostle of the North, and Enlightener of Denmark and Sweden; Nicholas, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop and Enlightener of Japan (Old Calendar date; see also February 16); Prophet Azarias; Martyrs Adrian and Eubulus at Caesaria in Cappadocia; Saint Symeon, first Bishop of Tver; Saint Romanus, prince of Uglich; New-Martyrs Stamatius and John, brothers, and Nicholas, their companion; Saint James (or Jacob), Archbishop of Serbia; Martyrs Papias, Diodorus, and Claudanus at Perge in Pamphylia; Martyr Blaise of Caesaria in Cappadocia; Saint Arsenius Ikaltoeli; Saint Ia, virgin of St. Ives; Saint Werburga, Abbess of Hanbury; Saint Lawrence, Archbishop of Canterbury (see also February 2); Saint Vlasios, the Cowherd; Martyrs Paul and Simon; Saint Claudios. Other events: repose of Schemamonk Paul of Simonov Monastery, disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky, and Hieromonk Isidore of Gethsemane Skete, Moscow ( January 21 2026: Julian Calendar ) Martyrs Eugenios, Candidus, Valerianus, and Aquilas, at Trebizond (303); Virgin-martyr Agnes of Rome (c. 304) (see also January 20); Martyr Neophytus of Nicaea (305); The Holy Four Martyrs of Tyre, by the sword; Venerable Apollonios of the Thebaid, ascetic (4th century) (see also March 31); Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662); Martyr Anastasius (662), disciple of St. Maximus the Confessor; Saint Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662); Martyrs Gabriel and Zionios, and companions, under the Bulgarian ruler Omurtag (c. 814-831); Venerable Neophytus of Vatopedi (Mount Athos); Saint Publius, first Bishop of Malta and later Bishop of Athens (c. 112 or c. 161-180) (see also March 13); Saint Fructuosus, Bishop of Tarragoña in Spain, and Deacons Augurius and Eulogius (259); Martyr Patroclus of Troyes, under Aurelian (ca. 270-275); Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (496); Saint Brigid (Briga), known as St Brigid of Kilbride, venerated around Lismore in Ireland (6th century); Saint Lawdog (6th century); Saint Vimin (Wynnin, Gwynnin), a Bishop in Scotland, said to have founded the monastery of Holywood (6th century); Saint Meinrad of Einsiedeln, hermit, martyred by robbers (861); Saint Maccallin (Macallan), Abbot of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache Abbey and Waulsort (978); Venerable Maximus the Greek of Russia (1556); Venerable Timon, monk (desert-dweller) of Nadeyev and Kostroma (1840); Saint George-John (Mkheidze) of Georgia (1960); New Hieromartyr Elias Berezovsky, Priest of Alma-Ata (1938); Other Commemorations: Synaxis of All the Martyred Saints, from Protomartyr Stephen up to the present; Synaxis of the Church of Holy Peace (Saint Irene), by the Sea in Constantinople; Icons: "Paramythia" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Vatopedi Mother of Consolation, Mother of God of Vatopedi), at Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (807); Icon of the Mother of God "Stabbed" (Greek: "Esphagmeni", Slavonic: "Zaklannaya"), at Vatopedi monastery (14th century); Icon of the Mother of God "Xenophon Hodigitria" (1730). 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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