… a thousand years as one day. – April

April

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Variable

– Triodion and Pascha

April 23rd – Saint George – If during Great Lent, the Feast Day will be Bright Monday

April 9th – Saint Raphael, Nicholas, Irene – If during Great Lent, the Feast Day will be Bright Tuesday

Bright ? – Panagia Portaitissa

Bright Tuesday – Saint Tounom the Emir (& April 18th)

Bright Wednesday – Synaxis of the Saints of Mount Sinai, the God-trodden mountain in northeastern Egypt.

Renewal Friday – Theotokos of the Life Giving Spring

Saint Leonidas 16th and Bright Wednesday

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Not in Synaxarion because New

April 16th – Saint Amphilochios Makris of Patmos

1st

  • Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt
  • Our Venerable Father Macarius, Abbot of the Monastery of Pelekete
  • Saint Melito, Bishop of Sardis
  • Righteous Ahaz
  • Holy Martyrs Gerontius and Basilides
  • Our Venerable Father Euthymius of Suzdal
  • Holy Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria
  • Venerable Gerontius, Canonarch of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
  • Our Venerable Father John of Shavta

2nd

  • Our Venerable Father Titus the Wonderworker
  • Holy and Glorious Martyrs Amphianus and Edesius, his brother
  • Holy Martyr Polycarp of Alexandria
  • Venerable Gregory, who practised Ascesis in the Gulf of Nicodemia
  • Our Holy Father Nicetius, Bishop of Lyons
  • Saint George of Atsqouri in Georgia

3rd

  • Our Venerable Father Nicetas the Confessor, Abbot of the Monastery of Medikion
  • Our Venerable Father Joseph the Hymnographer
  • Holy Martyr Elpidephorus, slain by the sword
  • Holy Martyrs: Dius, who accomplished his Martyrdom by having his head thrust into an earthenware pot; Bithonius, who was thrown into the sea; and Galycus, who died by a deers teeth
  • Our Holy Father Hilerius the Wonderworker, who lived in Ascesis on Mount Myrsinon
  • Holy New Martyr Paul the Russian, slain by the sword in Constantinople
  • Our Venerable Father Nectarius of Bezhetsk
  • Our Holy Mother Fara

4th

  • Our Venerable Father George of Mount Maleon
  • Holy Martyrs Theodulus and Agathopous
  • Holy Martyr Pherbutha, her sister Mekadoshta and the latter’s servant
  • Our Venerable Father Zosimas, who buried Saint Mary of Egypt
  • Our Venerable Father Plato, Abbot of Sakkoudion
  • Venerable Poplius, who died in peace
  • Our Venerable Fathers Theonas, Symeon and Pherbinus
  • Our Venerable Father Theonas, Metropolitan of Thessalonica
  • Venerable Joseph of the Kiev Caves
  • Venerable Zosimas of Vorbozomsk
  • Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville

5th

  • The Holy and Glorious Martyrs Claudius, Diodorus, Victorinus, Victor, Papias, Serapion and Nicephorus of Corinth
  • Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus
  • Our Venerable Mother Theodora of Thessalonica and of her Daughter Theopista
  • Holy Martyr Thermus, who died by fire, and his sister and her servant, slain by the sword
  • Holy Martyr Pompius, slain by the sword
  • Saint Zeno, who was coated with pitch and cast into fire, then received the Crown of Martyrdom on the pyre, being struck with a lance
  • Holy Martyrs Maximus and Terence, slain by the sword
  • The Five Young Girls of Lesbos, slain by the sword
  • Holy New Martyr George, slain by the sword in New Ephesus
  • Holy New Martyr Panaghiotis, who died in Jerusalem

6th

  • Our Holy Father Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople
  • The Hundred and Twenty Holy Martyrs of Persia
  • Venerable Platonida, who died in peace
  • The Two Holy Martyrs of Ascalon, who died after being buried up to the waist
  • Our Venerable God-bearing Father Gregory the Sinaite
  • Venerable Gregory, who practiced Ascesis near the Great Lavra of Mount Athos
  • Holy New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, George and Michael of Samothrace
  • Saint Methodius, Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of the Slavs

7th

  • Holy Martyr Calliopus
  • Our Holy Father George, Bishop of Mytilene
  • Holy Martyrs of Sinope: Rufinus the Deacon, Aquilina and the Two Hundred Soldiers
  • Saint George, Patriarch of Jerusalem
  • Venerable Gerasimus of Byzantium
  • Our Venerable Father Sabas of Kalymnos
  • Our Venerable Father Nilus of Sora (Sorosky)
  • Our Venerable Father Daniel of Pereyaslav-Zalesski

8th

  • Holy Apostles Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Phlegon and Asyncritus
  • Our Holy Father Celestine, Pope of Rome
  • Holy New Martyr John Naukliros (‘the Navigator’), who was burned alive in Kos, in 1669
  • Saint Niphon, Bishop of Novgorod
  • Venerable Rufus the Anchorite of the Kiev Caves

9th

  • Holy Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea
  • Holy Monk and Martyr Bademus the Archimandrite, and of his Seven Disciples
  • Holy Martyrs, the Bishop Heliodorus, the Priests Desan and Maribus and their Two Hundred and Seventy Companions, prisoners-of-war of Bet-Zabde in Persia
  • Holy Martyr Hypomone
  • Saint Anatolius, who refuted the heresy of Paul of Samosata
  • Holy Martyrs newly-revealed on Mytilene: Raphael, Nicolas and Irene

10th

11th

  • Holy Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum
  • Venerable Pharmuthius
  • Venerable Tryphena and Matrona of Cyzicus
  • Venerable Chariton, Abbot of the Monastery of Zhyanzemsk
  • Venerable James, Abbot of Zheleznoborovsk
  • Saint Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver
  • Our Holy Father Callinicus of Cernica, Bishop of Rimnicu-Vilcea

12th

  • Our Venerable Father Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium
  • Holy Hieromartyr Artemon of Laodicea, slain by the sword
  • Venerable Anthusa, daugher of the Emperor Constantine Copronymus
  • Holy Martyrs Demas and Protion, slain by the sword
  • Holy Monks and Martyrs Menas, David and John, who died pierced by arrows
  • Our Venerable Father Acacius of Kavsokalyvia
  • Our Holy Father Basil, Bishop of Riazan
  • Our Holy Father Zeno, Bishop of Verona

13th

  • Our Holy Father Martin I, Pope of Rome, and of the Holy Bishops of the West who suffered with him for the True Faith
  • Holy Martyrs Maximus, Quintillian and Dadas
  • Holy Martyrs Eleutherius the Persian, Theodosius and Zoilus the Roman
  • Saint Martyrius, Archbishop of Jerusalem

14th

  • Holy Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus
  • Holy Martyr Ardalion the Comedian, who died by fire
  • Holy Martyr Thomais of Alexandria
  • Holy Monk and Martyr Christopher of Saint Sabas
  • Holy Hieromartyr Philip, Bishop of Gaza
  • Holy New Martyr Demetrius of the Peloponnese
  • Holy Martyrs Antony, John and Eustathios of Lithuania
  • Saint Bacchyle, Bishop of Corinth

15th

  • Holy Martyr Crescens of Myra
  • Saint Leonidas, Bishop of Athens, who died in peace
  • Holy Martyrs Anastasia and Basilissa
  • Saints Theodore the Priest and Pausilypus
  • Saint Mstislav Theodore, Prince of Kiev
  • Holy Martyr Sukias and his Companions: Lucian, Polyeuctus, Codratus, Antiochus, Iksoron, Memmas, Phocas, Sergius, Dometius, Adrian, Zosimas, Victor, Thalkisus, Jordanus, Anastasius, Theodore, James and Theodosius, in Armenia
  • Saint Ephrem, Bishop of Atsqouri in Georgia

16th

17th

  • Holy Hieromartyr Simeon Bar Sabbae, Bishop of Persia, and of his Companions: Abd-haikla and Ananias the Priests, Ustazad, Pusaik and Azat and 1150 other Martyrs
  • Holy Martyr Adrian
  • Our Holy Father Agapetus, Pope of Rome, who died in peace
  • Our Holy Father Acacius, Bishop of Melitene
  • Our Holy Father Macarius, Bishop of Corinth
  • Our Venerable Father Zosimas of Solovki
  • Venerable Paisius the Fool for Christ and Discerner of Hearts of the Kiev Caves

18th

  • Our Venerable Father John the Isaurian, Disciple of Saint Gregory the Decapolite
  • Holy and Glorious Martyr Sabas the Goth
  • Our Holy Father Cosmas the Confessor, Bishop of Chalcedon
  • Venerable Euthymius the Wonderworker
  • Our Venerable Father Naucratius the Stoudite
  • Venerable Athanasia the Wonderworker
  • Holy New Martyr John of Ioannina
  • Holy Monk and Martyr John Koulikas
  • Our Venerable Father Euthymius the Enlightener of Karelia, and the Righteous Antony and Felix
  • Holy New Martyrs Christopher and Joseph of Dionysiou
  • Our Venerable Father Basil Ratishvili of the Monastery of Iviron
  • Saint Tounom the Emir

19th

20th

  • Our Venerable Father Theodore Trichinas
  • Holy Martyrs Victor, Zoticus, Zeno, Acyndinus, Caesarius, Severian, Christopher, Theonas and Antoninus
  • Holy Apostle Zacchaeus
  • Our Holy Father Anastasius I, Patriarch of Antioch
  • Holy Hieromartyr Anastasius II, Patriarch of Antioch
  • Saint Theotimus the Philosopher, Bishop of Tomis
  • Our Venerable Father John the Paleolavrite
  • Our Venerable Father Athanasius, Founder of the Monastery of the Transfiguration in the Meteora and his successor, the Venerable Joasaph
  • Venerable Alexander of Ocheven
  • Holy Martyr Gabriel of Bialystok

21st

22nd

23rd

24th

  • Our Holy Mother Elizabeth the Wonderworker
  • Holy Martyr Sabas Stratelates, the Goth, and the Seventy Soldiers who through him came to the Faith
  • Holy Martyrs Pasicrates and Valentine
  • Holy Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, Christopher, Demetrius, Danabus, Donatus, Therinus, Nestabes and Nike, who came to the Faith through the mediation of Saint George
  • Our Venerable Father Xenophon, Founder of the Monastery of Saint George on Mount Athos
  • Holy New Martyr Doukas of Mytilene, the Tailor, burned alive in Constantinople
  • Holy New Martyr Nicolas of Magnesia
  • Our Venerable Father Sabas of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves
  • Our Holy Fathers Iorest-Elias and Sabas the Confessors, Metropolitans of Alba-Iulia and Transylvania
  • Our Holy Father Joseph, Bishop of Maramouresh
  • Our Holy Father Wilfrid, Bishop of York

25th

  • Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark
  • Our Holy Father Macedonius II, Patriarch of Constantinople
  • The Eight Holy Unknown Anchorites, who were slain by the sword
  • Our Venerable Father Sylvester of Obnora
  • Saint Elias, Catholicos of Khorassan
  • Venerable Basil of Poiana Marului

26th

  • Holy Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Amasea, and Saint Glaphyra
  • Venerable Justa
  • Venerable Nestor, who abandoned his parents and became a Monk then died in peace
  • Venerable Calantius, who practiced Ascesis in Tamaseos on Cyprus
  • Venerable George, Founder of the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostom on Cyprus
  • Our Holy Father Stephen, Bishop of Perm
  • Venerable Joannicius of Devich
  • Our Venerable Father Richarius, Abbot in Picardy

27th

  • Holy Hieromartyr Symeon the Lord’s Brother, Bishop of Jerusalem
  • Our Venerable Father John the Confessor, Abbot of the Kathara Monastery
  • Holy Martyr Pollion the Reader
  • Holy Martyr Lollion the New, who died after being dragged along the ground
  • Saint Eulogius the Hospital, who died in peace
  • Venerable Nicon, Abbot of the Lavra of Saint Gerasimus of the Jordan
  • Our Venerable Father Stephen of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir
  • Commemoration of the Burning by the Turks of the Relics of Saint Sava (Sabas), First Archbishop of Serbia

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29th

30th