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April 25 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective April25 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark, first Bishop of Alexandria (63)April 25 / May 8. Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μᾶρκος ὁ Ἀπόστολος καὶ Εὐαγγελιστής. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ. 25 апреля (ст.ст.) 8 мая 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.Apostle and Evangelist Mark. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article XI.—Festival of St. Mark, Bishop of Alexandria, Evangelist and Martyr." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. Vol. IV. Dublin, 1875. p. 495.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Mark the Evangelist (about A.D. 68.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 334-338. Saint Anianas, second Bishop of Alexandria (86)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀννιανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρείας. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ. Martyr Nike (Nice), by the sword (303)Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Νίκη ἡ Μάρτυς. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ. Συναξαριστής. 25 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ). Hieromartyr Stephen II, Patriarch of Antioch (479) Saint Macedonius II, Patriarch of Constantinople (516)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακεδόνιος Β’ Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ. The Venebrable Eight Anchorites who were martyred by the sword.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι ὀκτὼ Ὁσιομάρτυρες καὶ Ἀναχωρητὲς. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes and Callista, in Syracuse in Sicily.April 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Phaebadius (Fiari), a Bishop of Agen in the south of France, who succeeded in stamping out Arianism in Gaul, together with his friend St Hilary of Poitiers (c. 392) Saint Maughold (Macaille), a disciple of Mel who became Bishop of Croghan in Offaly in Ireland, the patron saint of the Isle of Man (c. 489)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαουγάλδιος Ἐπίσκοπος τῆς νήσου τοῦ Ἀνθρώπου. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article I.—St. Maguil, or Machaldus, Patron and Bishop, in the Isle of Man. [Fifth Century.]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. Vol. IV. Dublin, 1875. pp. 478-486.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. MacCald or Maughold, B. of Man (about A.D. 518.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 338-342. (see also: April 27) Saint Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon (501) Saint Erminus, a monk at Lobbes Abbey in Belgium and later Abbot, Bishop and Confessor (737)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Ermine, Ab., B. (A.D. 757.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 342. Saint Mella, the mother of two saints, Cannech and Tigernach, who became a nun and Abbess of Doire-Melle (Rossclogher Abbey), in County Leitrim (c. 780) Saint Heribaldus, Monk and abbot of the monastery of St Germanus in Auxerre in France and later bishop of the same city (c. 857) Saint Robert of Syracuse, Abbot of a monastery in Syracuse in Sicily (c. 1000)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Saint Sylvester of Obnorsk, Abbot of Obnora Monastery (1379)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Σιλβέστρος ὁ ἐκ Ρωσίας. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.Venerable Sylvester the Abbot of Obnora. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Basil, Elder of Poiana Mărului, Romania (1767)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Βασίλειος ὁ Ἡσυχαστὴς. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.May 8 / April 25. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Venerable Bassian (Balashevich) the Blind, Hiero-schema-monk of the Kiev Caves (1827)

New martyrs and confessors

Hieromartyr Sergius Rokhletsov, Protopresbyter, of Veliky Ustyug (1938)

Other commemorations

Commemoration of the Consecration of the Church of the all-praised Apostle Peter, located near the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.Great Synaxaristes: Μνήμη ἐγκαινίων τοῦ Ἀποστολείου τοῦ πανευφήμου Ἀποστόλου Πέτρου. 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ. Icon of the Mother of God of Constantinople (1071)Icon of the Mother of God of Constantinople. OCA - Lives of the Saints."Tsaregrad" Icon of the Mother of God. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Repose of Elder Philotheus (Zervakos) of Paros (1980)

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References

Sources April 25 / May 8. Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru). May 8 / April 25. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A Parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). April 25. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas. St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 31. April 25. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 116–117. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 182. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 25 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ. Συναξαριστής. 25 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ). Russian Sources 8 мая (25 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 25 апреля (ст.ст.) 8 мая 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.