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April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 12 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 14

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 26 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 13, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 31.

Saints

  • Saints Theodosia the Princess (daughter of Emperor Hadrian), and the Eunuch Gerontios (ca. 117-138)
  • Martyrs Dadas, Quinctillian and Maximus, the Lectors (ca. 284-305)
  • Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia (3rd century) (see also: April 15 - Greek)
  • Hieromartyr Artemon, priest of Laodicea in Syria (303) (see also: April 12 - Greek)
  • Martyrs Eleutherius of Persia, and Zoilus, by beheading (4th century)
  • Martyr Theodosius, by the sword.
  • Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (476) (see also: April 14 - Greek)
  • Saint Martyrius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (486)
  • Saint Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (655) (see also: April 14 - Slavonic)
  • Two Confessor Bishops, who were exiled to the Crimean peninsula together with St. Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (ca. 655) (compare also with: Bishops Sergiy, Pir and Theodor, April 14 - Romanian)
  • Venerable martyr Christophoros, of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Ursus, Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (396)
  • Saint Martius, Abbot, of Clermont in Gaul (ca. 530)
  • Saint Hermenegild, son of the Visigothic King of Spain, Leovigild (586)
  • Saint Guinoch of Buchan (Guinoc, Guinochus), a Bishop in Scotland (ca. 838)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Arsenios of Elassonna (Arsenius of Suzdal), Archbishop of Elassona (1625) (see also: April 29)
  • Saint Anastasia (Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg), nun and foundress of the Holy Protection Convent (Pokrovsky) in Kiev (1900)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk (1933)
  • Holy New Martyrs of Vasiliisk in St Nicholas’ Eparchy in Ukraine (1937):
  • New Hieromartyr Sergius Shtenko
  • Martyrs Prochor Bunchuk and St Cyril Preymak
  • Virgin-martyr Martha Testova (1941)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Repose of Archimandrite Herman of Svyatogorsk (1890)
  • Translation of the relics (1967) of the Holy New Martyr George of Cyprus (1752)
  • Repose of Elder Cosmas of Pantokratoros monastery, Mt. Athos (1970)

    • References

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