Orthodox Calendar

Friday April 19, 2024 / April 6, 2024

Fifth Week of the Great Lent. Tone four.
Great Lent. Food with Oil

St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582).

Martyrs Peter and Prokhor (1918).

New Hieromartyr John priest (1934).

New Hieromartyr James priest (1943).

St. Sebastian, Elder of Optina and Karaganda (1966).

St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, enlightener of the Slavs (885).

Venerable Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (308).

120 Martyrs of Persia (345).

Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias the Presbyter.

Venerable Gregory of St. Athanasius monastery on Mt. Athos, instructor of St. Gregory Palamas (1308).

Venerable Gregory the Sinaite (1346).

2 Martyrs from Ascalon.

New Martyr Nicholas of Lesbos (1463).

New Monk-martyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, who suffered at Constantinople (1818).

New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace (1835).

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