March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

• Saint Dismas the Good Thief, crucified next to Christ (1st century) (see also: October 12; Good Friday) • Martyrs Pelagia, Theodosia, and Dula, at Caesarea Palestinae, by the sword (361) • The Holy Martyr who was formerly an executioner. • Venerable Sennouphios the Standard-bearer, of Latomos Monastery in Thessalonica (9th century) • Venerable Timon the Hermit (10th century). ==Pre-Schism Western saints==

• Holy 262 Martyrs of Rome. • Saint Quirinus of Tegernsee (Quirinus of Rome), a martyr who suffered in Rome under Claudius II (c. 269) • Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium, Bishop in Pannonia (Hungary), martyred under Diocletian at Sirmium (Mitrovica) (304) (see also: March 26) • Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra, Bishop-Abbot of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe (653) (see also: March 24) • Saint Humbert of Maroilles, a disciple of St Amandus who helped found the monastery of Marolles in Belgium (c. 680) • Saint Hermenland (Hermeland, Herbland, Erblon), monk at Fontenelle, ordained priest and sent with twelve monks to establish a new monastery on the island of Aindre (Indret) in the estuary of the Loire (c. 720) ==Post-Schism Orthodox saints==

• Saint Nicander, hermit, of Pskov (1582) (see also: September 24) • Venerable Parthenius of the Kiev Caves (1855) • Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947) (see also: March 24; April 7 - Greek; the fifth Sunday of Great Lent) • Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia and Confessor of Traditional Orthodoxy (1979) ==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 (Our Lady of the Burning Bush). • 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 (16th century) ==Icon gallery==

File:Ohrid annunciation icon.jpg|Icon of Annunciation.(Church of St Clement in Ohrid, 14th century) File:Annunciation (Greece, 1st h. 18 c.).jpg|Icon of Annunciation.(Greece, 18th century) File:Neopalimaya kupina.jpg|Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos the Burning Bush. File:Bosom of Abraham and Good Thief.jpg|St. Dismas the Good Thief in the Bosom of Abraham. File:Good thief (c. 1560, Moscow Kremlin).jpg|St. Dismas the Good Thief (c. 1560). File:Humbert du Hamel - (659-027.JPG|Skull (relic) of St. Humbert of Maroilles. File:Saint Partheinus from Kiev.jpg|Venerable Parthenius of the Kiev Caves. File:Tikhon of Moscow.jpg|New Hieroconfessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. File:SaintTikhonOfMoscow.jpeg|New Hieroconfessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. File:JustinPopovic.jpg|Saint Justin (Popovic). File:Βρυζάκης, Θεόδωρος - Ο Παλαιών Πατρών Γερμανός ευλογεί τη σημαία της Επανάστασης, 1865.jpg|Proclamation of Greek Independence on March 25, 1821. ==Notes==