{"id":1372,"date":"2025-03-24T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:22:25","slug":"saints-2025-03-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/03\/24\/saints-2025-03-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints &#8211; 2025-03-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Feast of the Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos is celebrated on one day March 25, exactly nine months before the Nativity of Christ. There is one day of Prefeast (March 24), followed by the Feast itself. On March 26, we celebrate the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the Feast of the Annunciation falls during Great Lent, there is no Postfeast of the Feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Righteous Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia, was born and lived in Seleucia of Pisidia (Asia Minor). He was pious and virtuous, therefore when the holy Apostle Paul (June 29) came to Seleucia, he established Saint Artemon as the first bishop of this city, since he was the most worthy. Saint Artemon wisely nourished the flock entrusted to him and won glory as a comforter of the poor and oppressed. Saint Artemon died in great old age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oca.org\/saints\/lives\/2025\/03\/24\/100878-saint-artemon-bishop-of-seleucia\">OCA Site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Holy Father Theonas, Archbishop of Thessolonica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Theonas was a disciple of Saint James of Kastoria (November 1), and lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He lived for some time in the Pantocrator and Simonopetra Monasteries on Mt. Athos. He founded the Monastery of Saint Anastasia, and was consecrated as Archbishop of Thessalonica. He died in peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zachariah the Recluse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Zachariah the Recluse of Egypt because of his concern for the poor and homeless was called \u201cto the outcast.\u201d In the printed Menaion he is known as \u201cour Monastic Father Zachariah,\u201d and so he has been identified erroneously with Saint Zachariah the Monk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos The Feast of the Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos is celebrated on one day March 25, exactly nine months before the Nativity of Christ. There is one day of Prefeast (March 24), followed by the Feast itself. On March 26, we celebrate the Synaxis of the Archangel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}