Saints

• Herodion
  Herodion of Patras
  Herodion of Patras was numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was a relative of Saint Paul and bishop of Neopatras , where he suffered greatly. After beating, stoning, and stabbing him, they left him for dead, but St...
  
  , Agabus
  Agabus
  Saint Agabus or Saint Agabo was an early follower of Christianity mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a prophet. He is traditionally remembered as one of the Seventy Disciples described in Luke ....
  
  , Asyncritus of Hyrcania
  Asyncritus of Hyrcania
  Asyncritus of Hyrcania, also Asynkritos , was numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was bishop of Hyrcania in Asia. Saint Paul mentions him in his letter to the Romans . The Church remembers St. Asyncritus on April 8.-Hymns:...
  
  , Rufus
  Rufus of Thebes
  Rufus of Thebes is numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was bishop of Thebes in Greece, and is referenced in Romans 16:13. His feast day is April 8.-Hymns:Troparion...
  
  , Phlegon
  Phlegon of Marathon
  Phlegon of Marathon is numbered among the Seventy Disciples. He was bishop of Marathon in Thrace. He is referenced in Romans 16:14, and his feast day is on April 8....
  
  , and Hermes
  Hermes of Philippopolis
  Hermes of Philippopolis was one of the Seventy Disciples and was bishop in Philippopolis in Thrace . The Shepherd of Hermas is also traditionally ascribed to him...
  
   of the Seventy Apostles, and those with them
• Pope Celestine I
  Pope Celestine I
  Pope Saint Celestine I was elevated to the papacy in the year 422, on November 3 according to the Liber Pontificalis, but on April 10 according to Tillemont....
  
   of Rome
  Rome
  Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
  
  
• Martyr
  Martyr
  A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
  
   Pausilippus of Heraclea in Thrace
  Thrace
  Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...
  
  
• 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...
  
   Niphont, 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 Novgorod
• Saint Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Caves
• Martyr John Naukliros ("the Skipper") in Thessaly
  Thessaly
  Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....
  
  

Other Commemorations

• Spanish Icon
  Icon
  An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...
  
   of the Most Holy Theotokos
  Theotokos
  Theotokos is the Greek title of Mary, the mother of Jesus used especially in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches. Its literal English translations include God-bearer and the one who gives birth to God. Less literal translations include Mother of God...
  
  
• Repose of Righteous Helen Voronova, disciple of Elder Barsanuphius of Optina (1916)