April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Apr. 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 22All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 4 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Hieromartyr Januarius of Benevento, bishop, and his companions Festus, Proculus, and Sosius, deacons; Desiderius, reader; and Eutychius and Acutius, laymen; at Pozzuoli...

 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 23
April 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Apr. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 24All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 6 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George...



All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 5 by Old Calendarists
Old calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...


Saints

  • Saint
    Saint
    A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

     Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     of Anastasiopolis in Galatia
  • Martyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

     Leonidas of Alexandria
  • Saint Vitalis of Gaza
    Vitalis of Gaza
    Saint Vitalis of Gaza is venerated as a hermit-saint by the Catholic Church. A monk of Gaza, he travelled to the city of Alexandria at the age of sixty. His legend states that after obtaining the name and address of every prostitute in the city, he hired himself out as a day laborer, and took...

    , monk
    Monk
    A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

  • Apostles Nathaniel, Luke
    Luke the Evangelist
    Luke the Evangelist was an Early Christian writer whom Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles...

    , and Clement of Sardice
    Clement of Sardice
    Clement of Sardis is numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was Bishop in Sardis. The Church remembers St. Clement on January 4 with the Seventy; April 22 with Ss. Nathaniel and Luke; and on September 10 with Ss. Apelles and Lucius.-External links:...

    , of the Seventy Apostles
  • Martyr Epipodius of Lyons
  • Martyr Nearchus
    Saint Nearchus
    Saint Nearchus or Nearch was an Armenian martyr and saint. He was a Roman army officer and friend of Saint Polyeuctus, whom he had converted to the Christian faith. Nearchus was later burned alive....


Other Commemorations

  • Translation of the relic
    Relic
    In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...

    s of Saint Vsevolod
    Vsevolod of Pskov
    Vsevolod Mstislavich , the patron saint of the city of Pskov, ruled as Prince of Novgorod in 1117–32, Prince of Pereslavl and Prince of Pskov in 1137–38.- Early life :...

     (in baptism
    Baptism
    In Christianity, baptism is for the majority the rite of admission , almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also membership of a particular church tradition...

     Gabriel), Prince of Pskov
    Pskov
    Pskov is an ancient city and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located in the northwest of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population: -Early history:...

  • Repose of Blessed Fool-for-Christ Athanasius Andreyevich of Orel
    Oryol
    Oryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow...

     (1967)
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