April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
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Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar –
April 6
All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''April 18'' by
Eastern Orthodox Churches on the
Old Calendar
Old Calendarists (Greek: ''palaioimerologitai'' or ''palaioimerologites''), also known as Old Feasters (''palaioeortologitai''), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; ), are traditionalist groups of Eastern Orthodox Chri ...
.
For April 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''
March 23''.
Saints
* ''Martyrs Claudius, Diodorus, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Serapion and Nicephorus, at Corinth'' (251 or 258)
[ Συναξαριστής. ]
5 Απριλίου
'' ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).
* Martyrs Theodulus,
Reader, and Agathopodes, Deacon, and those with them, at
Thessaloniki (c. 303)
[April 5 / April 18]
Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).[April 18 / April 5]
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). (''see also: April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
- Greek'')
* Martyrs Zenon, by fire,
[ Maximus, Terentius and Pompeius, by the sword (250)][ ''(see also: October 28, March 13, April 10)''
* Martyr Thermos (''Fermus, Firmus''), by fire.][
* The Holy Noble Lady (''sister of martyr Thermos/Fermus''), and her Servant, martyrs, by the sword.][
* Holy Five Young Virgin-Martyrs of Lesbos, by the sword.][
* '' Virgin-martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, of Alexandria'' (304)][ (''see also: ]May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
'')
* Venerable Martyr Ypomoni (''Hypomoni, Evpomoni'').[
* Venerable Publius of Egypt, monk (4th century)][ (''see also: ]April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
- Greek'')
* Saints Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus, of Egypt (4th century)[ (''see also: ]April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
- Greek'')
* Venerable Mark the Anchorite of Athens (ca. 400)[18 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.)]
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* Venerable Plato the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion (813)[ (''see also: ]April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
- Greek'')
* ''Venerable Theodora of Thessaloniki'' (886)[
]
Pre-Schism Western saints
* Holy Martyrs of North-West Africa, a large group martyred at the Easter liturgy by Genseric, the Arian King of the Vandals (459)[April 5]
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* Saint Bécán
Saint Bécán (or Began, Beggan, Becain; 5th–6th century) was an Irish monk who founded a monastery at Kilbeggan and is considered by some to be one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. His feast day is 5 April.
Monks of Ramsgate account
The monk ...
(''Began''), one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland
The Twelve Apostles of Ireland (also known as Twelve Apostles of Erin, ir, Dhá Aspal Déag na hÉireann) were twelve early Irish monastic saints of the sixth century who studied under St Finnian (d. 549) at his famous monastic school Clonar ...
' (6th century)[
* Venerable Derfel-Gadarn, a soldier and afterwards a hermit in Llanderfel in Gwynedd in Wales (6th century)][ (''see also: April 6 - Greek'')
* Saint Æthelburh of Kent (c. 647)][Rev. Richard Stanton. ]
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 144-145.
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
* Saint Argyre the Neomartyr of Prussa (1721)
* New Martyr George of New Ephesus (1801)[
* New Martyr Panagiotes of Jerusalem (1820)][
]
New martyrs and confessors
* New Hieromartyr Alexis Krotenkov, Priest (1930)[
* New Hieromartyr Nicholas Simo, Archpriest, of Kronstadt (1931)][
]
Other commemorations
* ''Translation of the relics
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...
(1652) of St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow (1607)''
Translation of the relics of St Job the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.[
* Repose of Righteous Symeon Klimych (1837)][
* Repose of Elder Philemon of ]Valaam
Valaam (Russian: Валаам or Валаамский архипелаг, also known by the Finnish name Valamo) is an archipelago in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, lying within the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. The total area o ...
and Jordanville (1953)[
]
Icon gallery
File:Patriarch Job of Moscow.jpg, Patriarch Job of Moscow.
Notes
References
Sources
April 5 / April 18
Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).
April 18 / April 5
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
April 5
OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
* The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas. ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 26.
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
*
The Roman Martyrology
'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 96–97.
* Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 144–145.
Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes:
5 Απριλίου
Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
* Συναξαριστής.
5 Απριλίου
'' ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).
Russian Sources
*
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
*
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