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April 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 26

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 12.

Saints

  • Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark, first Bishop of Alexandria (63)
  • Saint Anianas, second Bishop of Alexandria (86)
  • Martyr Nike (Nice), by the sword (303)
  • Hieromartyr Stephen II, Patriarch of Antioch (479)
  • The Venebrable Eight Anchorites who were martyred by the sword.

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes and Callista, in Syracuse in Sicily.
  • Saint Phaebadius (Fiari), a Bishop of Agen in the south of France, who succeeded in stamping out Arianism in Gaul, together with his friend St Hilary of Poitiers (c. 392) <small>(see also: April 27)</small>
  • Saint Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon (501)
  • Saint Mella, the mother of two saints, Cannech and Tigernach, who became a nun and Abbess of Doire-Melle (Rossclogher Abbey), in County Leitrim (c. 780)
  • Venerable Basil, Elder of Poiana Mărului, Romania (1767)
  • Venerable Bassian (Balashevich) the Blind, Hiero-schema-monk of the Kiev Caves (1827)

New martyrs and confessors

  • Hieromartyr Sergius Rokhletsov, Protopresbyter, of Veliky Ustyug (1938)
  • Icon of the Mother of God of Constantinople (1071)
  • Repose of Elder Philotheus (Zervakos) of Paros (1980)