July 15, 2025. + Orthodox Calendar

Orthodox Calendar 2025

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July 15

Monday

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July 28

8th Week after Pentecost. Tone 6.

No fast.

Martyrs Cyricus (Quiricus) and his mother Julitta, of Tarsus (ca. 305). Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Vladimir (Basil in holy baptism), enlightener of the Russian Land (1015). Synaxis of the Saints of Kiev.

Commemoration of the Baptism of Rus’ (988). Martyr Abudimus of the isle of Tenedos (4th c.). St. Sylvester, bishop of Kanev (1908) Sts. Vladimir and Agrippina, prince and princess of Rzhevsk (ca. 1226).

St. Asiya the Wonderworker, of Tanis in Syria (5th c.). St. Donald of Ogilvy (ca. 716) and his nine virgin daughters, nuns of Abernathy (Scotland). Translation of the relics of St. Swithun, bishop and wonderworker, of Winchester (971). Finding of the head of St. Matrona of Chios (1462). St. Zosima, monk, of Alexandrov (Vladimir) (c. 1713). St. Job (Kundrya), archimandrite, of Malaya Ugolka (Carpatho-Russia) (1985). New Martyrs of Velic and Gornepolima (Serbia) killed by the Nazis (1943).

Articles

The Baptism of Rus' and the Legacy to the Russian People of Holy Prince Vladimir

Archbishop Averky (Taushev)

The warlike prince, though he decided to convert to Christianity, could not without Divine intervention, humble his soul to the degree sufficient to appeal to the Greeks with the meek request to be baptized and to be taught, together with his people, about the new faith. At the same time, his innate wisdom and refined political instinct told him asking this of the Greeks would not be without danger.

Equal of the Apostles Great Prince Vladimir, in Holy Baptism Basil, the Enlightener of the Russian Land

The Holy Great Prince Vladimir, Equal of the Apostles. Few names in the annals of history can compare in significance with the name of St Vladimir, the Baptizer of Rus, who stands at the beginning of the spiritual destiny of the Russian Church and the Russian Orthodox people.

Thoughts of Protopriest Victor Ilienko of Blessed Memory on the Feast Day of St Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles

Protopriest Victor Ilienko

Holy Prince Vladimir, seeking the good jewel, obtained the most invaluable of all jewels—Christ Himself. As did the man from the Gospel, who, finding a field with buried treasure, sells everything he had and buys the field, so did Prince Vladimir, obtaining Christ, abandoned his pagan lifestyle with all its pleasures.

Praise of St. Vladimir

Metropolitan Hilarion of Kiev

Arise, honored dead, from your grave! Arise, shake off your sleep, for you are not dead, but sleep to the day of the common resurrection. Arise! You are not dead, for it is not right for you to die, who have believed in Christ who is the life of the whole world. Shake off your sleep, lift your eyes, that you may see with what honors the Lord has showered you above, and how you live unforgotten upon earth through your son!

St. Vladimir, Prince of Russia, Equal to the Apostles

St. Nikolai (Velimirovich)

That man who would not hold back from any earthly pleasures, who reached the limits of every looseness, debauchery, uncontrolled blood-thirstiness, thievery, violent vengeance – had to die with his old soul and start living with a new one.

What Was the Moral Strenth of Holy Grand Prince Vladimir?

St. John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco

He was the conqueror of his own self, and through this he ruled others, and preached Christ with his deeds in every realm of life. He served the true God as an individual, as the head of a family, as a leader, as a judge, a ruler, a sovereign.

St. Sylvester, Bishop of Kanev

His contemporaries note that in him they saw the ancient ideal of a saint—both a teacher of faith and a model of true piety.

A New Saint for Carpatho-Russia: St Job of Ugolka

It is necessary first to be purified, then to purify; to be made wise, then to make wise; to become light, then to enlighten; to approach God, then to bring others to him; to be sanctified, then to sanctify…

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