April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 6

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Apr. 18 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

  • Martyrs Theodoulos, reader; Agathapodes, deacon; and those with them at Thessalonica
  • Saint Publius of Egypt, monk
  • Saints Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus of Egypt
  • Saint Theodora of Thessalonica, nun
  • Saint Mark the Anchorite of Athens
  • Saint Plato, abbot of the Studion
  • New martyr George of New Ephesus
  • Martyrs Claudius, Diodorus, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Scrapion and Nicephorus
  • 5 girl martyrs of Neanidor of Lesbos

[edit] Other Commemorations

  • Repose of Blessed Theodore of Svir (1822)
  • Repose of Righteous Symeon Klimych (1837)
  • Repose of Elder Philemon of Valaam and Jordanville (1953)