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Today's feasts April 16 2024: Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia in Illyria; Martyrs Leonidas, Charissa, Nice, Galina, Callista (Calisa), Nunechia, Basilissa, Theodora, and Irene of Corinth (see also April 15); Saint Theodore-Bassa, princess of Novgorod; New-Martyr Michael of Smyrna (see also April 15); Monk-martyr Christopher of Dionysiou of Mount Athos; Hieromartyr Nikita of St. Anne Skete on Mount Athos; Saint Fructuosis of Brada; Saints Phylicus bishop, Januarius presbyter, Fortunatus, and Septeminus; Saint Paternus, Bishop of Avranches; the weeping Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Ilyin Chernigov" ( April 3 2024: Julian Calendar ) Martyrs Dius, Bithonius, and Galycus (3rd century); Martyr Elpidephorus (3rd century); Martyrs Cassius, Philip, and Eutychius, of Thessalonica (304); Martyr Ulphianus of Tyre (306); Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308) (see also April 2) Martyrs Evagrius, Benignus, Chrestus, Arestus, Kinnudius, Rufus, Patricius, and Zosima, at Tomis in Moesia (c. 310); Venerable Illyrius, monk of Mount Myrsinon in the Peloponnese; Venerable Nicetas the Confessor, Abbot of Medikion (824); Venerable [[[Joseph the Hymnographer]], of Sicily (883) (see also April 4); Saint Pancras of Taormina (Pancratius), consecrated by the Apostle Peter and sent to Taormina in Sicily where he was stoned to death (c. 40); Saint Sixtus I (Xystus), Pope of Rome from 117 to c 125, sometimes referred to as a martyr (c. 125); Saint Fara (Burgundofara) of Eboriac (now Faremoutiers) (657); Saint Attala (Attalus), a monk and abbot of a monastery in Taormina in Sicily (c. 800); Saint Nectarius, founder of Bezhetsk Monastery, Tver (1492); New martyr Paul the Russian at Constantinople (1683) (see also April 6); Other Commemorations: Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Unfading Rose" ("The Unfading Blossom, The Flower of Incorruption"). Repose of Elder Amphilochios (Makris) of Patmos (1970). 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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