Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Fast); Hieromartyr Januarius, bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proculus, and Sosius deacons, Desiderius reader, and Eutychius and Acutius laymen, at Pozzuoli (circa 305); Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, and his mother Philippa, and Martyrs Dioscurus, Socrates, and Dionysius (II century); Martyrs Isaacius, Apollo, and Codratus of Nicomedia (303); Saint Maximian, patriarch of Constantinople (434).
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder
Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder/Climax [Listvychnyk], (movable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent); Saint Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655); Martyr Ardalion the Actor (305-311); Martyr Azat the Eunuch and 1,000 Martyrs in Persia (circa 341); Martyrs Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Vilna in Lithuania (1347).
Third Sunday of Great Lent, Veneration of the Holy Cross
Commemoration of Venerable George, confessor, bishop of Mitylene (circa 820); Faithful Het’man Peter (Konashevych-Sahaidachnyj) (1622); Martyr Calliopus at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304); Martyrs Rufinus deacon, Aquilina, and 200 soldiers at Sinope (310); Venerable Serapion of Egypt, monk.