Orthodox Calendar

Thursday May 2, 2024 / April 19, 2024

Passion Week: Great Thursday.
Great Lent. Food with Oil

Venerable John of the Ancient Caves in Palestine (8th c.).

St. Matrona the Blind of Moscow (1952).

New Hieromartyr Victor, bishop of Glazov (1934).

New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1942).

Martyrs Christopher, Theonas, and Antoninus in Nicomedia (303).

Hieromartyr Paphnutius of Jerusalem.

St. George the Confessor, bishop of Antioch in Pisidia (813-820).

St. Tryphon, patriarch of Constantinople (933).

Venerable Nicephorus, abbot of Katabad.

Venerable Symeon the Barefoot of Philotheou Monastery, Mt. Athos.

Finding of the relics (1621) of Venerable Joachim, abbot of Opochka (Pskov) (1515).

Venerable Joasaph (Bolotov) of Alaska.

Hieromartyr Alphege, archbishop of Canterbury (1012) (Celtic & British).

New Martyr Agathangelus of Esphigmenou Monastery, Mt. Athos (1819) (Greek).

Martyrs Theodore, his mother Philippa and two soldiers, Socrates and Dionysius at Perge in Pamphylia (2nd c.).

The Scripture Readings