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Today's feasts April 2: Martyrs Amphianus (Apphianus) and his brother Aedesius, of Patara, Lycia (306); Virgin-martyr Theodora of Palestine (Theodosia of Tyre) (308) (see also April 3)' Martyr Polycarp of Alexandria (4th century); Venerable Stephen the Wonderworker, in Ascalon, Palestine (778); Venerable Titus the Wonderworker (9th century); Saint George of Atsquri, Georgia (9th-10th centuries); Saint Urban of Langres, sixth Bishop of Langres in France, patron-saint of vine dressers (c. 390); Saint Abundius, of Greek origin, he became Bishop of Como in the north of Italy (469); Saint Victor of Capua, Bishop of Capua in the south of Italy and a Church writer (554); Saint Nicetius of Lyon (Nizier), in Gaul (573); Saint Brónach (Bromana), called the Virgin of Glen-Seichis, now Kilbronach in Ireland; Saint Musa, a child in Rome who was granted visions, mentioned by her contemporary by St Gregory the Great (6th century); Saints Lonochilus (Longis, Lenogisil), priest who founded a monastery in Maine in France (653), and Agnofleda, a holy virgin (638); Venerable Virgin-martyr Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland (870); Saint Constantín mac Cináeda (Constantine I), King of Scotland, slain in a battle against heathen invaders of his country and honoured as a martyr, buried at Iona (877); Saint Rufus, a hermit at Glendalough in Ireland; Saint Drogo, a monk at Fleury-sur-Loire in France and afterwards at Baume-les-Messieurs (10th century); Saint Sabbas, Archbishop of Sourozh, Crimea (11th century); Venerable Gregory, ascetic of Nicomedia (1240). 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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