April 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Apr. 25

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For April 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 11.

Saints[]

• Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome,^[1] and 70 soldiers^[2] with him (272)^{[3][4][note 2]}
• Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine, and Julius, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297)^{[3][6][7][note 3]}
• Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and four others, at Nicomedia (c. 303)^{[3][8][9][note 4]}
• Martyr Eutexios.^[10]
• Saint Innocent, priest, on the Mount of Olives (4th century)^[3][11]
• Venerable Thomas, Fool-for-Christ, of Syria (c. 550)^[3][12][13]
• Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker, of Constantinople (6th-8th centuries)^{[3][14][15][note 5]}
• Venerable Thaumastos (the Wonderworker) (6th century)^[16]
• Saint Xenophon, founder of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos (c. 1018)^{[3][17][note 6]}

Pre-Schism Western saints[]

• Martyr Alexander of Lyons, and companions (c. 177)^{[3][18][19][20][note 7][note 8]}
• Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212)^{[21][22][note 9]} (see also: April 23)
• Saint Gregory of Elvira, Bishop of Elvira in the south of Spain (c. 394)^{[5][18][note 10]}
• Saint Dyfnan, born in Wales, he founded a church in Anglesey (5th century)^[18]
• Saint Deodatus of Blois (Dié), a hermit near Blois in France, later the town of Saint-Dié grew up around his cell (c. 525)^[18]
• Saint Honorius of Brescia, a hermit near Brescia in Italy who was chosen bishop of that city (c. 586)^{[5][18][note 11]}
• Saint Mellitus, the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England (624)^{[5][18][23][24][25][note 12]}
• Saint Authaire (Oye) (7th century)^{[18][note 13]}
• Saints Bova and Doda (7th century)^{[5][18][note 14]}
• Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of York (709)^[3]
• Saint Egbert, Bishop, of Iona (729)^{[3][5][18][25][26][27][note 15]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints[]

• Venerable Saints Sabbas^[28][29] and Alexis the Hermit,^[30][31] of the Kiev Caves (13th century)^[3]
• New Martyr Doukas of Mytilene, the tailor (1564)^{[3][22][32][33]}
• Saints Symeon (Stefan) (1656),^{[note 16]} Elias (Iorest) (1678)^[35][36] and Sava (Brancovici) (1683),^[37][38] Metropolitans of Ardeal, Transylvania, Confessors against the Calvinists.^[3]
• Venerable Joseph (Stoyka) the Confessor, Bishop of Maramureș, Romania (c. 1711)^{[3][39][40][note 17]}
• New Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia (1776 or 1795)^{[3][22][41][42]}
• Saint Alexis Toth, priest, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909)^[3][11] (see also: May 7)

New martyrs and confessors[]

• Martyr Sergius Archangelskiy (1938)^[11][43]
• New Hieromartyr Branko Dobrosavljević, Serbian Orthodox priest who fell victim to Ustaše (1941)^[3][11]

Other commemorations[]

• Commemoration of the consecration of the Church of St George in Constantinople.^{[44][note 18]}
• Uncovering of the relics of Saint Ivo of Ramsey (1001)^{[11][18][25][note 19]}
• Synaxis of the "Molchenskaya" Icon of the Mother of God (1405)^{[43][45][note 20]}
• Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam Monastery (1947)^[3]

Icon gallery[]

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  Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome.

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  Triptych with St. Honorius of Brescia (center).

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  St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York.

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  St. Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre.

Notes[]

References[]

Sources[]

• April 24 / May 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 7 / April 24. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• April 24. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 31.
• April 24. 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. pp. 115–116.
• 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. pp. 177–181.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 24 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 24 Απριλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 7 мая (24 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 24 апреля (ст.ст.) 7 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).