title: February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  February 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 26
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 10 (March 9 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For February 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 12.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Martyr Alexander, at Marcianopolis in Thracia (c. 305)
  * Martyr Anthony, by being burned alive.
  * Saint Theodore, Fool-for-Christ.
  * Hieromartyr Reginus of Skopelos, Bishop of the isle of Skopelos (355)
  * Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Aipeia in Cyprus.
  * Venerable Paphnutius of Kephala, monk, contemporary of St. Anthony the Great (4th century)
  * Saint Tarasius of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (806)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saints Donatus, Justus, Herena and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs who suffered in North Africa under Decius (3rd century)
  * Saint Ethelbert, King of Kent (616)
  * Saint Aldetrudis (Adeltrudis) of Maubeuge Abbey (c. 696)
  * Saint Walburga, Abbess of Heidenheim (779)
  * Saint Victor of St. Gall, a monk at St Gall in Switzerland who became a hermit in the Vosges in France where he reposed (995)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Sylvester (Olshevsky), Archbishop of Omsk and Pavlodar (1920) (see also: July 3)
  * New Hieromartyr Alexander Vinogradov, Priest (1938)
  * Virgin-Martyr Mstislava Fokinoi (1938)
  * New Hieromartyr Leo Korobczuk, Priest, of Laskov (Chełm and Podlasie), Poland (1944)
  * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Troitsky, Priest (1945)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Repose of Blessed Pashenka of Nizhny Novgorod (1934)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Saint Tarasius of Constantinople.
  * Saint Walburga.
  * New Hieromartyr Sylvester (Olshevsky), Archbishop of Omsk and Pavlodar.
  * New Hieromartyr Leo Korobczuk.
  