title: April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  April 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 26
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For April 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 12.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark, first Bishop of Alexandria (63)
  * Saint Anianas, second Bishop of Alexandria (86)
  * Martyr Nike (Nice), by the sword (303)
  * Hieromartyr Stephen II, Patriarch of Antioch (479)
  * Saint Macedonius II, Patriarch of Constantinople (516)
  * The Venebrable Eight Anchorites who were martyred by the sword.
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes and Callista, in Syracuse in Sicily.
  * 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)
  * Saint Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon (501)
  * Saint Erminus, a monk at Lobbes Abbey in Belgium and later Abbot, Bishop and Confessor (737)
  * 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)
  * Venerable Basil, Elder of Poiana Mărului, Romania (1767)
  * 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.
  * Icon of the Mother of God of Constantinople (1071)
  * Repose of Elder Philotheus (Zervakos) of Paros (1980)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark.
  * Saint Sylvester of Obnorsk.
  