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Today's feasts April 1: Saints Hermes and Theodora the martyrs (132); Saint Melito of Sardis, Bishop of Sardis (177); Saints Alexander, Dionysius, Ingeniani, Panteros (or Pantainos), Parthenios and Saturninus the Martyrs; Martyrs Gerontius and Basilides (3rd c.); Martyr Polynikos; Righteous Achaz; Venerable Mary of Egypt (ca. 421); Saint Makarios of Pelekete, Abbot of Pelekete Monastery (820); Saint Procopius of Sázava, Abbot of Sázava in Bohemia (1053); Venantius, a Dalmatian bishop whose relics were brought from Spalato to Rome in 641 (ca.255); Martyr hermit Tewdric of Tintern, Wales (6th c.); Saint Valéry (Walric, Walericus), Abbot of Leuconay (Saint-Valery-sur-Somme) (622); Saints Caidoc and Fricor (Adrian), Welsh missionaries (7th c.); Saint Dodolinus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné in France (7th c.); Saint Cellach (Cellach mac Congaile), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, previously the Abbot of Iona in Scotland and founder of the Monastery of Kells (815); Saint John Shavteli of Salosi (John of Black Mountain), Georgia (12th-13th c.); Saint Eulogius of Salosi, Georgia, (Eulogius the Prophet), Fool-for-Christ (12th-13th c.); Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria, on the Volga, Wonderworker of Vladimir (1229); Saint Gerontius of the Kiev Caves, Canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th c.); Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, Archimandrite of Suzdal (1404); Saint Pachomius (Romansky) of the Kyiv Caves, Bishop (1724); Saint Barsanuphius of Optina, Elder (1913); Hieromartyr Joachim (Levitsky) of Kyiv, Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod, crucified upside down at Sevastopol (1921); New martyr Michael (Misha), Fool-for-Christ (1931); New Hieromartyr Sergius (Zavarin), Priest, new martyr of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1938); New Hieromartyr Schema-bishop Macarius, of St. Macarius the Roman Monastery, near Lezna (1944). 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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