March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

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

  Saints

• Saint Dismas the Good Thief, crucified next to Christ
• Martyrs Pelagia, Theodosia, and Dula, at Caesarea Palestinae, by the sword
• The Holy Martyr who was formerly an executioner.
• Venerable Sennouphios the Standard-bearer, of Latomos Monastery in Thessalonica
• Venerable Timon the Hermit.

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Holy 262 Martyrs of Rome.
• Saint Quirinus of Tegernsee, a martyr who suffered in Rome under Claudius II
• Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium, Bishop in Pannonia, martyred under Diocletian at Sirmium
• Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra, Bishop-Abbot of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe
• Saint Humbert of Maroilles, a disciple of St Amandus who helped found the monastery of Marolles in Belgium
• Saint Hermenland, monk at Fontenelle, ordained priest and sent with twelve monks to establish a new monastery on the island of Aindre in the estuary of the Loire
• Saints Barontius and Desiderius
• Saint Kennocha, nun at a convent in Fife, held in great veneration in Scotland, especially around Glasgow
• Saint Ælfwold, a monk at Winchester who was chosen as Bishop of Sherborne in 1045

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Nicander, hermit, of Pskov
• Venerable Parthenius of the Kiev Caves
• Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos
• Saint Justin, Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia and Confessor of Traditional Orthodoxy

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieroconfessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia

  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.
• 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

  Icon gallery