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April 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on April 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 1, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 19.

Saints

  • Saints Hermes and Theodora the martyrs (132)
  • Saint Melito of Sardis, Bishop of Sardis (177)
  • Saints Alexander, Dionysius, Ingeniani, Panteros (or Pantainos), Parthenios and Saturninus the Martyrs.
  • Martyrs Gerontius and Basilides (3rd century)
  • Martyr Polynikos.
  • Righteous Achaz (Ahaz)
  • Saint Mary of Egypt (c. 421)
  • Saint Makarios of Pelekete, Abbot of Pelekete Monastery (820)
  • Saint Procopius of Sázava, Abbot of Sázava in Bohemia (1053)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Venantius, a Dalmatian bishop whose relics were brought from Spalato to Rome in 641 (c. 255)
  • Martyr hermit Tewdric of Tintern, Wales (6th century)
  • Saint Walric (Walericus, Valéry), Abbot of Leuconay (Saint-Valery-sur-Somme) (622)
  • Saints Caidoc and Fricor (Adrian), Welsh missionaries (7th century)
  • Saint Dodolinus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné in France (7th century)
  • Saint Cellach (Cellach mac Congaile), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, previously the Abbot of Iona in Scotland and founder of the Monastery of Kells (815)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint John Shavteli of Salosi (John of Black Mountain), Georgia (12th-13th century)
  • Saint Eulogius of Salosi, Georgia, (Eulogius the Prophet), Fool-for-Christ (12th-13th century)
  • Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria, on the Volga, Wonderworker of Vladimir (1229)
  • Saint Gerontius of the Kiev Caves, Canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th century)
  • Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, Archimandrite of Suzdal (1404)
  • Saint Pachomius (Romansky) of the Kyiv Caves, Bishop (1724).
  • Saint Barsanuphius of Optina, Elder (1913)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • Hieromartyr Joachim (Levitsky) of Kyiv, Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod, crucified upside down at Sevastopol (1921)
  • New martyr Michael (Misha), Fool-for-Christ (1931)
  • New Hieromartyr Sergius (Zavarin), Priest, new martyr of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Schema-bishop Macarius, of St. Macarius the Roman Monastery, near Lezna (1944)

    • References

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