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April 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 5

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 17 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 22.

Saints

  • Martyrs Agathopodes, a deacon, and Theodulus, a lector, at Thessalonica, under Maximian (c. 286–305) <small>(see also: April 5 - Slavic)</small>
  • Virgin-martyr Pherbutha (Tarbula, Phermoutha, Ferfouthe) of Persia, with her sister Mekadoshta and the latter’s maidservant (343)
  • Venerable George of Mount Maleon (Malevon) in Laconia, monk, in the Peloponnese (5th-6th centuries)
  • Venerable Publius the Egyptian. <small>(see also: April 5 - Slavic)</small>
  • Venerable Zosimas of Palestine, Hieromonk (c. 560)

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File:Zosimas and Mary of Egypt (Greece, 17 c.).jpg|Venerable Zosimas of Palestine, with St. Mary of Egypt (Greece, 17th century).

File:Joseph the Hymnographer.jpg|Venerable Joseph the Hymnographer, of Sicily.

File:Abbey of St. Peter - Paul, Clones. - geograph.org.uk - 692349.jpg|Abbey of St. Peter & Paul, Clones (Clones Abbey).

File:Isidore de Séville.jpg|St. Isidore of Seville, Bishop of Seville.

File:Вениамин (Кононов Василий Васильевич).jpg|New Hieromartyr Benjamin (Kononov), Archimandrite, of Solovki Monastery.

File:Мария Гатчинская. Лицо.jpg|New Nun-martyr Maria (Lelyanova) of Gatchina.

File:Преподобномученица Мария Гатчинская (иконописная мастерская Елеон).jpg|New Nun-martyr Maria (Lelyanova) of Gatchina.

File:Our Lady the Vivifying Fountain.jpg|Russian icon of the Theotokos, Life-giving Spring, 17th century.

Image:Poxvala.jpg|Detail of the icon of the Praises of the Theotokos, before which the Akathist may be chanted.

File:Gerontissa.jpg|Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Gerontissa" ("Eldress").

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Notes

References

Sources

  • April 4 / April 17. Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).
  • April 17 / April 4. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • April 4. 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.&nbsp;26.
  • April 4. 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. p.&nbsp;96.
  • 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. p.&nbsp;144.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 4 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 4 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).

Russian Sources

  • 17 апреля (4 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 4 апреля (ст.ст.) 17 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.