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April 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 25

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 11.

Saints

  • Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him (272)
  • Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine, and Julius, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297)
  • Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and four others, at Nicomedia (ca. 303)
  • Martyr Eutexios.
  • Saint Innocent, priest, on the Mount of Olives (4th century)
  • Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker, of Constantinople (540)
  • Venerable Thomas, Fool-for-Christ, of Syria (ca. 550)
  • Venerable Thaumastos (the Wonderworker) (6th century)
  • Saint Xenophon, founder of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos (ca. 1018)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Martyr Alexander of Lyons, and companions (ca. 177)
  • Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212) (see also: April 23)
  • Saint Gregory of Elvira, Bishop of Elvira in the south of Spain (ca. 394)
  • Saint Dyfnan, born in Wales, he founded a church in Anglesey (5th century)
  • Saint Deodatus of Blois (Dié), a hermit near Blois in France, later the town of Saint-Dié grew up around his cell (ca. 525)
  • Saint Honorius of Brescia, a hermit near Brescia in Italy who was chosen bishop of that city (ca. 586)
  • Saint Mellitus, the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England (624)
  • Saint Authaire (Oye) (7th century)
  • Saints Bova and Doda (7th century)
  • Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of York (709)
  • Saint Egbert, Bishop of Iona (729)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Saints Sabbas and Alexis the Hermit, of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
  • New Martyr Doukas of Mytilene (1564)
  • Saints Symeon (Stefan) (1656), Elias (Iorest) (1678) and Sava (Brancovici) (1683), Metropolitans of Ardeal (Transylvania), Confessors against the Calvinists.
  • Venerable Joseph (Stoyka) the Confessor, Bishop of Maramures (Romania) (ca. 1711)
  • New Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia (1796)
  • Saint Alexis Toth, priest, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909) (see also: May 7)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • Martyr Sergius Archangelskiy (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Branko, Priest, of Veljusa, Serbia (1941)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Commemoration of the consecration of the Church of St George in Constantinople.
  • Uncovering of the relics of Saint Ivo of Ramsey (1001)
  • Synaxis of the "Molchenskaya" Icon of the Mother of God (1405)
  • Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam Monastery (1947)

    • References

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