25 May
30 commemorations of 25 May in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 7 June of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Third Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (c. 850)Μνήμη τρίτης εὑρέσεως τῆς τιμίας κεφαλῆς τοῦ προφήτου Προδρόμου καὶ Βαπτιστοῦ Ἰωάννουorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others, at Dorostolum (302)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Hieromartyr Therapontus, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century)oca.org · drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Olbian (Albianos), monkὉ Ὅσιος Ὀλβιανόςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th century)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Skiota of Georgia (c. 13th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σκιόταsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ πρίγκιπαςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)Ἡ Ὁσία Θέκλα τοῦ Περεγιασλάβλsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Thaddeus, Archimandrite, of Svatogorsk Monastery (1758)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Innocent (Borisov), Archbishop of Cherson and Taurica (1857)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰννοκέντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Χερσῶνοςsynaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia
- Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana
New martyrs and confessors
- Virgin-Martyr Elena (Korobkova) (1938)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.ru
- New Martyr Tavrion (Tolokontsev), Monk, of Veliki Ustiug (1939)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- 1,290 New Martyrs of Piva, Montenegro, killed by the Nazis (1943)arhiva.spc.rs · pravoslavie.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)oca.org · orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology · breviary.net
- Martyr Celestine, in Rome, severely tortured with hot ironsὉ Ἅγιος Κελεστίνος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Μιλάνουsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus, brothers martyred near Évreux, France (c. 384)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάξιμος καὶ Βικτωρίνος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζηνόβιος Ἐπίσκοπος Φλωρεντίαςsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leo of Troyes (Saint-Lyé), monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550)Roman Martyrology · nominis.cef.fr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλδέλμος Ἐπίσκοπος Σέρμπορνsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh Abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotlandorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Bede the Confessor, Hieromonk of Wearmouth-Jarrow (735)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyrs Gerbald, Reginhard, Winebald and Worad, of the Monastery of St Bertin in France, all martyred by the Danes (862)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Egilhard, eighth abbot of Cornelimünster near Aachen in Germany, martyred by Vikings at Bercheim (881)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit (936)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Commemoration of the Reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of recluse George of Zadonsk (Stratonicus in monasticism) (1836)pravoslavie.ru
- Finding of the holy icon of Saint Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, in Ermoupolis on the island of Syros, in the Cyclades, Greece (1936)Μνήμη εὐρέσεως τῆς ἱερᾶς εἰκόνος τοῦ Ἁγίου Μεγαλομάρτυρος Δημητρίου τοῦ Μυροβλύτουsynaxarion.gr
The list is May 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.