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April 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 19

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 5.

Saints

  • Martyrs Victor, Zoticus, Zeno, Acindynus, and Severian, of Nicomedia (ca. 303)
  • Martyr Sabbas the Goth (Sabbas Stratelates), at Buzau in Wallachia (372) (see also: April 12 and April 15)
  • Saint Acacius II, Bishop of Melitene (445) (see also: April 17)
  • Saint Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon, and his fellow-ascetic St. Auxentius (815-820)
  • Venerable John the Righteous (John the Hesychast) (820), disciple of St. Gregory of Decapolis.
  • Venerable Naucratius, Abbot of the Studion (848)
  • Venerable Athanasia the Wonderworker, Abbess, of Aegina (850)
  • Venerable Matthew (Matthias), acquaintance of St. Athanasia the Wonderworker (ca. 850)
  • Venerable Euthymius the Wonderworker.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Eleutherius Bishop of Illyria, his mother Anthia, and eleven others, martyred in Illyria under Hadrian (ca. 117-138) (see also: December 15 - in the East)
  • Martyr Corebus, a prefect of Messina in Sicily, converted to Christ by St Eleutherius and martyred under the Emperor Hadrian (ca. 117-138)
  • Martyr Calocerus, an officer of the Emperor Hadrian martyred in Brescia in Italy (ca. 117-138)
  • Saint Apollonius the Apologist, a Roman senator, denounced as a Christian by one of his own slaves and condemned to be beheaded (ca. 190)
  • Saints Bitheus and Genocus, two monks from Britain who accompanied St Finian of Clonard to Ireland (6th century)
  • Saint Laserian (Molaisse), founder of the monastery and bishopric of Leighlin in Ireland (639)
  • Saint Deicola (Dicul), born in Ireland, he preached Christ in England in Norfolk and in Sussex (late 7th century)
  • Saint Agia (Aia, Austregildis, Aye), wife of St Hidulf of Hainault in Belgium, monastic at the convent of Mons (ca. 714)
  • Saint Wicterp (Wiho, Wicho), Abbot of Ellwangen Abbey in Germany, later became the tenth Bishop of Augsburg (749)
  • Saint Cogitosus, a monk at Kildare in Ireland who probably wrote the Life of St Brigid (8th century)
  • Saint Perfectus, a priest in Cordoba in Spain, martyred by Muslims on Easter Sunday (851)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Basil (Ratishvili) the Georgian, Wonderworker, of Iveron Monastery, Mt. Athos (13th century)
  • Venerable Euthymius the Enlightener of Karelia (1435), and righteous laymen Anthony and Felix of Karelia.
  • Saint Arkady Dorohobuzhsky, disciple of St Harasym of Pereyaslavl-Zalisski (16th century)
  • New Martyr John the Tailor, of Ioannina, at Constantinople (1526)
  • Venerable new martyr John (Koulikas) (1564) (see also: April 8)
  • Martyr Tunom, Arab Emir who confessed Christ on seeing the Holy Fire in Jerusalem (1579)
  • Hieromartyr Cyril VI, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Bessarion Selinin, Priest (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexis Krontenkov, Priest, of Ekaterinburg (1930)
  • New Hieromartyrs Nicholas (1937) and Basil Derzhavin (1930), Priests, and martyred lay people of the city of Gorodets (Nizhni-Novgorod)
  • New Martyr Tamara (Satsi), Abbess, of Cheboksara (Chuvashia) (1942)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Icon of the Mother of God of St Maximus (Maximovsk Icon) (1299)
  • Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Glykophylousa" ("Sweet-kissing"). (see also: March 27)

    • References

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