Friday 16 April 2021 |
Friday 3 April 2021 |
Friday 16 April 2021 |
✚ Orthodox (New) Revised Julian Calendar |
☦ Orthodox (Old) Julian Calendar |
✝ Catholic (Gregorian) Calendar |
Feasts |
Feasts |
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Saints |
Saints |
Solemnity |
- Martyrs Leonidas of Nea Epidavros, and those with him:
- Hieromartyrs Felix, Bishop of Spoleto,
- Virgin-martyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia, in Thessaloniki (304)
- Saints Agatho, Eutychia, Cassia and Phillippa, the Confessors, in Thessaloniki, by imprisonment (304)
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- Martyrs Dius,
- Martyr Elpidephorus (3rd century)
- Martyrs Cassius, Philip, and Eutychius, of Thessalonica (304)
- Martyr Ulphianus of Tyre (306)
- Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308)
- Martyrs Evagrius, Benignus, Chrestus, Arestus, Kinnudius, Rufus, Patricius, and Zosima, at Tomis in Moesia (ca. 310)
- Venerable Illyrius, monk of Mount Myrsinon in the Peloponnese.
- Venerable Nicetas of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor), Abbot of Medikion (824)
- Venerable Joseph the Hymnographer, of Sicily (883)
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Pre-Schism Western Saints |
Pre-Schism Western Saints |
Feast |
- The Eighteen Martyrs of Saragossa (ca. 304):
- Virgin-martyr Encratia (Encratis, Encratide, Engracia), who suffered terribly for Orthodoxy in Saragossa in Spain (ca. 304)
- Saint Turibius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga in Spain and a valiant defender of Orthodoxy (ca. 460)
- Saint Vasius (Vaise, Vaize), a rich citizen of Saintes in France, murdered by his relatives for giving his property to the poor (ca. 500)
- Saint Turibius of Palencia, founder of the monastery of Liébana in Asturias in Spain (ca. 528)
- Saint Paternus (Pair), Bishop of Avranches (ca. 574 or 563)
- Saint Fructuosus of Braga in Iberia (665)
- Saint Lambert of Saragossa, a servant who was martyred near Saragossa by his Saracen master (ca. 900)
- Saint Herveus of Tours (Hervé), monk at the monastery of St Martin of Tours, and hermit (1021)
- Saint Elias, Monk and Abbot in Ireland and Germany (1042)
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- Saint Pancras of Taormina (Pancratius), born in Antioch, consecrated by the Apostle Peter and sent to Taormina in Sicily where he was stoned to death (ca. 40)
- Saint Sixtus I (Xystus), Pope of Rome from 117 to c 125, sometimes referred to as a martyr (ca. 125)
- Saint Fara (Burgundofara) of Eboriac (now Faremoutiers) (657)
- Saint Attala (Attalus), a monk and abbot of a monastery in Taormina in Sicily (ca. 800)
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Post-Schism Orthodox Saints |
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints |
Memorial |
- Saint Theodora-Bassa, princess of Novgorod (1378)
- Saint John, Fool-for-Christ, of Verkhoturye (1701)
- New Martyr Michael Burliotes of Smyrna, by beheading (1772)
- New Monk-martyr Christopher of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Adrianople (1818)
- New martyrs Christodoulos and Anastasia, in Achaia (1821)
- Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927)
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- Saint Nectarius, founder of Bezhetsk Monastery (Tver) (1492)
- New martyr Paul the Russian at Constantinople (1683)
- Venerable Amphilochios (Makris) Elder of Patmos (1970)
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- Trinitarians: Saint Benoît-Joseph Labre, religious
- Norway: Saint Magnus, martyr
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Other Commemorations |
Other Commemorations |
Optional Memorial |
- Synaxis of the Weeping Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Ilyin Chernigov" (1658)
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Mother of God of Tambov (1692)
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- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Unfading Rose" ("The Unfading Blossom, The Flower of Incorruption").
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