# March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 26
All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For March 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 12.

## Feasts

* The Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.

## Saints

* Saint Dismas the Good Thief, crucified next to Christ (1st century) (see also: October 12; Good Friday)
* Martyrs Pelagia, Theodosia, and Dula, at Caesarea Palestinae, by the sword (361)
* The Holy Martyr who was formerly an executioner.
* Venerable Sennouphios the Standard-bearer, of Latomos Monastery in Thessalonica (9th century)
* Venerable Timon the Hermit (10th century).

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Holy 262 Martyrs of Rome.
* Saint Quirinus of Tegernsee (Quirinus of Rome), a martyr who suffered in Rome under Claudius II (c. 269)
* Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium, Bishop in Pannonia (Hungary), martyred under Diocletian at Sirmium (Mitrovica) (304) (see also: March 26)
* Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra, Bishop-Abbot of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe (653) (see also: March 24)
* Saint Humbert of Maroilles, a disciple of St Amandus who helped found the monastery of Marolles in Belgium (c. 680)
* Saint Hermenland (Hermeland, Herbland, Erblon), monk at Fontenelle, ordained priest and sent with twelve monks to establish a new monastery on the island of Aindre (Indret) in the estuary of the Loire (c. 720)
* Saints Barontius and Desiderius (c. 725)
* Saint Kennocha (Kyle, Enoch), nun at a convent in Fife, held in great veneration in Scotland, especially around Glasgow (1007)
* Saint Ælfwold, a monk at Winchester who was chosen as Bishop of Sherborne in 1045 (1058)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Nicander, hermit, of Pskov (1582) (see also: September 24)
* Venerable Parthenius of the Kiev Caves (1855)
* Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947) (see also: March 24; April 7 - Greek; the fifth Sunday of Great Lent)
* Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia and Confessor of Traditional Orthodoxy (1979) (Old style 25 March, 7 April on new calendar, due to OS Annunciation moved to: June 1)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieroconfessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)

## Other commemorations

* Greek Independence Day: Proclamation of Greek independence on March 25, 1821, blessed by Metropolitan Germanos III of Old Patras at the Monastery of Agia Lavra..

### Icons

* Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos the Burning Bush, on Mount Sinai (Our Lady of the Burning Bush).
* Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos Evangelístria, kept at the monastery of Aliartos in Boeotia.
* Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos of Kypera, kept at the monastery of the Panagia, on the island of Cephalonia.
* "Annunciation" Icon of the Mother of God (16th century)

## Icon gallery

* Icon of Annunciation. (Church of St Clement in Ohrid, 14th century)
* Icon of Annunciation. (Greece, 18th century)
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos the Burning Bush.
* St. Dismas the Good Thief in the Bosom of Abraham.
* St. Dismas the Good Thief (c. 1560).
* Skull (relic) of St. Humbert of Maroilles.
* Venerable Parthenius of the Kiev Caves.
* New Hieroconfessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
* New Hieroconfessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
* Saint Justin (Popovic).
* Proclamation of Greek Independence on March 25, 1821.