April 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Oct 26, 2023

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Apr. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 24

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed on April 10.

Saints

Martyrs Donatus and Therinus of Bothrotus, in Epirus (c. 250)

Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George (303)

Martyr Polychronia, mother of Great-martyr Saint George, a Greek native of Lydda (Diospolis) (303)

Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of St. George,

and Martyrs Glycerius and Athanasius the Magician, at Nicomedia (303)

Martyr Valerius, by the sword.

Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian (303) (see also: April 21)

Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212) (see also: April 24)

Saint Marolus, a Syrian by origin, he became Bishop of Milan in Italy in 408 (423)

Saint Ibar of Beggerin (Iberius, Ivor), an enlightener in Ireland, who mainly preached in Leinster and Meath (5th century)

Saint Pusinna, a holy virgin in Champagne in France who had six sisters, all widely honoured as saints (5th-6th centuries)

Saint Gerard of Toul, Bishop of Toul in France (994)

Saint Adalbert of Prague (Voitech), Bishop of Prague (997)

Blessed George of Shenkursk, Fool-for-Christ (1462)

New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Ptolemais (1752)

New Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria, who suffered at Pergamus (1802)

New Hieromartyr Priest Igor (George) of Spas Chekriak village, Russia (1918)

New Hieromartyr John Anserov, Priest of Alma-Ata (1940)

New Hieromartyr Sergius Zacharczuk, priest, of Nabroz (Chełm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943)

Commemoration of Protopresbyter John Labunsky of Prilutsk (1945)

Repose of Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhni-Novgorod (1963)

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