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Today's feastsJune 3 2024: Martyr Lucillian and those who suffered with him at Byzantium: four youths: Claudius, Hypatius, Paul and Dionysius, and Virgin Paula; Hieromartyr Lucian, and with him Deacon Julian, Presbyter Maximian, Marcellinus, and Saturninus at Beauvais in France; Saint Athanasius, Wonder-worker of Cilicia; Saint Hieria, widow, of Mesopotamia; Saint Clotilde (Chlotilda), Queen of France; Saint Pappos, monk; Saint David of the Gareji Monastery; Saint Kevin, Abbot of Glendalough, Ireland; Saint Meriasek, Bishop of Camborne; translation of the relics of the slain Crown Prince Demetrius of Moscow (see also May 15)
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Featured articleThe 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."
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