Just a reminder for all those with a love of the Irish and British Saints that in 2007 the Church of Russia designated the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost as the
Sunday of All Saints of Great Britain and Ireland
3 July 2011
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=3507 Aug 21 2007 4:50PM
Russian church to annually honor early British Isles saints
MOSCOW. Aug 21 (Interfax) - The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox
Church instituted a holiday to honor Christians who lived on the
islands of Great Britain and Ireland and were canonized before the
1054 schism that divided Christendom into the Western Catholic and
Eastern Orthodox churches.
The holiday will be an annual event observed on the third Sunday
after Pentecost in the Julian Calendar.
The Synod, which met on Tuesday, also ordered that these saints'
names be included in the Menology after their Christian exploits have
been studied.
The Synod's decision follows an appeal of March 3, 2007, in which the
diocese of Sourozh, a Russian Orthodox Church diocese having the
islands of Great Britain and Ireland for its territory, asked the
head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, and its Holy
Synod to institute a holiday for pre-1054 British and Irish saints.
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Pentecost.................................... 12 June 2011
All Saints.................................... 19 June
All Saints of Russia...................... 26 June
All Saints of of Britain and Ireland....... 3 July
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Hierom.Ambrose
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