Thursday, 25 May 2028
12 May 2028 on the Old calendar
- ✠Ascension of our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ
- New Martyrs who suffered from the Persians in the Fereydan valley (17th C) (Georg.) [movable feast on Ascension]
- ✚Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (c. 850)
Liturgical colour: gold
Saints of the day
- Venerable New Martyr Tavrio († 1939)
- Holy Hierarch Innocent, Archbishop of Cherson († 1857)
- Hieromartyr Therapon the Bishop of Cyprus (4th C)
- Venerable Olbian
- Martyr Celestine
- Synaxis of the Saints of Volyn: Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor, and Juliana
- St Dodo, Prince of Georgia (6th C)
- Commemoration of the return of 3,000,000 uniates to the Orthodox Church in Vilnya (1831)
Fasting
No fastAny food is fine.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.