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April 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 24.

Saints

  • Hieromartyr Archilias, Priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of Rome (3rd century)
  • Venerable Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis, reposed in peace (c. 300-308)
  • Martyr Platonida (Platonides), and two martyrs buried up to their loins, at Ascalon in Palestine.
  • Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304) (Church of Romania; -- see also: March 26)
  • 120 Martyrs of Persia (c. 344-347)
  • Martyrs Timothy and Diogenes, in Macedonia, by Arians (345)
  • Saint Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (582)
  • Saint Methodius of Moravia, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop of Moravia and Enlightener of the Slavs (885) (see also: May 11)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saints Florentius, Geminianus and Saturus, martyrs in Sirmium in Pannonia (4th century)
  • Saints Rufina, Moderata, Romana, Secundus and Seven Companions, martyred at Sirmium in Pannonia (4th century)
  • Saint Marcellinus of Carthage, imperial representative in North Africa, martyred by the Donatists (413)
  • Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (432)
  • Saint Brychan, a King in Wales with twenty-four saintly children (5th century)
  • Saint Ulched (Ulchad, Ylched), a holy man who gave his name to Llechulched in Anglesey in Wales.
  • Saint Winebald (Winewald, Vinebaud), a monk at Saint-Loup-de-Troyes in France where he became abbot (c. 650)
  • Saint Derfel (Tervillius) the Prince, son of King Joel II, became a hermit in Llandderfel in Gwynedd in Wales (660) (see also: April 5)
  • Saint Gennard, a monk at Fontenelle in France and eventually Abbot of Flay (Saint-Germer-de-Fly Abbey) (720)
  • Saint Berthanc (Berchan), a monk at Iona in Scotland and later Bishop of Kirkwall in the Orkneys (c. 840)
  • Saint Prudentius of Troyes (Prudentius Galindo) (861)
  • Saint Notker the Stammerer, nicknamed Balbulus (the Stammerer), monk at St Gall Abbey where he spent his whole life, excelling as a musician (912)
  • Saint Urban, Abbot of the Monastery of Peñalba near Astorga in Spain (c. 940)
  • Saint Ælfstan (Elstan), monk who became Bishop of Ramsbury and succeeded St Ethelwold as Abbot of Abingdon (981)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Venerable Gregory (Drimys) of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos (Gregory the Byzantine) (1310), instructor of St. Gregory Palamas.
  • Venerable Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (Gregory the Sinaite) (1347)
  • Venerable Rufus the Obedient, of the Kiev Far Caves (14th century) (see also: April 8)
  • New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon, of Mytilene (1463)
  • Saint Aphonios, Bishop of Novgorod from 1635-1649 (1652)
  • New Martyr Paul the Russian, at Constantinople (1683) (see also: April 3)
  • New Hieromartyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1818)
  • New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace, at Makri in Thrace (1835)
  • Saint Martyrius, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1865)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • Martyrs Peter Zhukov and Prohor Mikhailov (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr John Boikov, Priest (1934)
  • New Hieromartyr Jacob Boikov, Priest (1943)
  • New Hiero-confessor Sebastian (Fomin), Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery and Karaganda (1966) (see also: April 19)

    • Other commemorations

  • Repose of Hieromonk Arsenius of Valaam Monastery (1853)
  • Repose of Elder Mardarius of the Nizhni-Novgorod Caves Monastery (1859)
  • Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin) of Rakitin (1982)

    • References

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