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Today's feasts January 30: Synaxis of the Three Holy Hierarchs: Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom; Hieromartyr Hippolytus, priest, of Antioch, martyred in the period of the heretical Novatianists; Hieromartyr Hippolytus of Rome, Bishop of Rome, and those with him (269): Martyrs Censorinus, Sabinus, Ares, the virgin Chryse (Chryse of Rome), Felix, Maximus, Herculianus, Venerius, Styracius, Mennas, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprus, Theodore the Tribune, Maximus the Presbyter, Archelaus the deacon, and Cyriacus the bishop – all beheaded at Ostia under Roman Emperor Claudius Gothicus and a vicarius named Ulpius Romulus; Venerable Zeno the Hermit, of Antioch (414), disciple of St. Basil the Great; Martyr Theophilus the New, in Cyprus (784); Venerable Kyriakos, ascetic of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified (7th-8th centuries); Saint Peter I of Bulgaria, King of Bulgaria (969); Saint Martina of Rome, a martyr in Rome under Alexander Severus (228); Saint Savina of Milan (Sabina), who ministered to martyrs in prison and buried their bodies during the persecution of Diocletian (311); Saint Armentarius of Antibes, first Bishop of Antibes in Provence in France (c. 451); Martyrs Felician, Philippian and Companions, a group of 126 martyrs in North Africa; Saint Tudy (Tudclyd, Tybie), a virgin in Wales; Llandydie church in Dyfed is named after her (5th century); Saint Adelgonda, foundress of Maubeuge Abbey (680); Saint Balthildes, Queen of France and nun of Chelles (680); Saint Armentarius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (c. 711); Saint Amnichad (Amnuchad), a monk and then a hermit at Fulda monastery (1043); Venerable Zeno the Faster, of the Kiev Caves Monastery (14th century); New Martyr Hadji-Theodore of Mytilene (Mt. Athos) (1784); New Martyr Demetrius of Sliven (1841); Saint Theophil, fool-for-Christ, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1868); Blessed Pelagia of Diveyevo Monastery, fool-for-Christ (1884); New Hieromartyr Vladimir Kristenovich, Priest (1933); New Martyr Stephen Nalivayko (1945). Other Commemorations: Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Zakynthos from the plague by Saint George the Great-Martyr (1688); Finding of the Wonderworking Icon of Panagia Evangelistria of Tinos (1823); Day of Letters / Greek Letters Day (Greek Orthodox Church). 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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