April 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Mar. 31 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Apr. 2

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on April 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For April 1, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 19.

Saints[]

• Saints Hermes and Theodora the martyrs (132)^{[1][2][note 2]}
• Saint Melito of Sardis, Bishop of Sardis (177)^[4]
• Martyrs Gerontius and Basilides (3rd century)^{[4][5][note 3]}
• Saints Alexander, Dionysius, Ingeniani, Panteros (or Pantainos), Parthenios and Saturninus the Martyrs.^{[6][note 4]}
• Martyr Polynikos.^[7]
• Righteous Achaz (Ahaz)^{[8][note 5]}
• Saint Mary of Egypt (c. 421)^[4][9][10]
• Saint Makarios of Pelekete, Abbot of Pelekete monastery (820)^{[4][11][12][note 6]}
• Saint Procopius of Sázava, Abbot of Sázava in Bohemia (1053)^[4][13] (see also: July 4 - West)

Pre-Schism Western saints[]

• Venantius, a Dalmatian bishop whose relics were brought from Spalato to Rome in 641 (c. 255)^[3][13]
• Saint Walric (Walericus, Valéry), Abbot of Leuconay (Saint-Valery-sur-Somme) (622)^{[13][14][note 7]}
• Saints Caidoc and Fricor (Adrian), Welsh missionaries (7th century)^{[13][15][note 8]}
• Saint Dodolinus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné in France (7th century)^[13]
• Saint Cellach (Cellach mac Congaile), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, previously the Abbot of Iona in Scotland and founder of the Monastery of Kells (815)^[13][17]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints[]

• Saint John Shavteli of Salosi (John of Black Mountain), Georgia (12th-13th century)^[18][19]
• Saint Eulogius of Salosi, Georgia, (Eulogius the Prophet), Fool-for-Christ (12th-13th century)^[20]
• Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria, on the Volga, Wonderworker of Vladimir (1229)^[4][21][22]
• Saint Gerontius of the Kiev Caves, Canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th century)^[4][23][24]
• Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, Archimandrite of Suzdal (1404)^[4][25][26]
• Saint Pachomius (Romansky), Archbishop of Roman and Galați, Moldavia, and monk of the Kiev Caves (1724)^{[4][27][note 9]} (see also: April 14 - Romanian)
• Saint Barsanuphius of Optina, Elder (1913)^[4][29][30]

New martyrs and confessors[]

• New martyr Michael (Misha), Fool-for-Christ (1931)^[31]
• New Hieromartyr Sergius (Zavarin), Archpriest, of Yaroslavl (1938)^{[4][31][32][33][note 10]}
• New Hiero-confessor Schema-bishop Macarius (Vasiliev), at the Pskov Caves Monastery (1944)^{[4][34] [note 11]}

Icon gallery[]

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  St. Mary of Egypt. Russian icon, 19th century

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  St. Procopius of Sázava.

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  St. Abraham of Bulgaria.

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  St. Barsanuphius of Optina.

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  New Hieromartyr Sergius (Zavarin), Archpriest, of Yaroslavl.

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  New Hiero-confessor Schema-bishop Macarius (Vasiliev).

Notes[]

References[]

Sources[]

• April 1/14. Orthodox Calendar Pravoslavie.ru).
• April 14 / April 1. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• April 1. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• April 1. 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. 93.
• 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. 140.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 1 Απριλιου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 1 Απριλίου. Ecclesia. (H Εκκλησια Τηε Ελλαδοσ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 14 апреля (1 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 1 апреля (ст.ст.) 14 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).