Orthodox Calendar for April 2010

April 2010
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Great and Holy Thursday Ven. Euthymius of Suzdal Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt (4th-6th c.)	2 Lenten Fast—Strict Fast Great and Holy Friday Ven. Titus the Wonderworker Holy Martyrs Amphianus and Aedesius (ca. 306)	3 Lenten Fast—Wine is Allowed Great and Holy Saturday Ven. Nicetas the Confessor Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (886) Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949) (March 21 OC)
4 Holy Pascha The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Beginning of the Pentecostarion Ven. Joseph the Hymnographer St Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (523)	5 Bright Monday Martyrs Agathopedes, Theodulus and Their Companions Our Holy Father Mark of Trache (ca. 400)	6 Bright Tuesday St Methodius, Enilightener of the Slavs St Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582)	7 Bright Wednesday Repose St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener N. America Holy Martyr Calliopius, with his mother Theoclea (304) St George the Confessor, bishop of Mitylene (ca. 820) St Nilus (Nil Sorsky), abbot of Sora (1508) Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1948) (March 25 OC)	8 Bright Thursday Apostles of the Seventy Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufuf, Phlegon, Hermes Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (432)	9 Bright Friday The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia	10 Bright Saturday Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus and Companions Six Thousand Holy Martyrs in Georgia (1615) New Hieromartyr Gregory, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)
11 Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum Holy Martyrs Processus and Martinian (1st c.)	12 St Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium St Isaac the Syrian, abbot of Spoleto, Italy (ca. 550) Our Holy Mother Athanasia (860)	13 Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa) Hieromartyr Artemon, Presbyter of Laodicea St Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655)	14 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus of the Seventy Holy Martyr Ardalion the Actor (3rd c.)	15 Apostles of the Seventy Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus Holy Martyr Sabbas the Goth (372)	16 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia	17 Ven. Zosima of Solovetsk Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, and those with him (343)
18 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women Ven. John, Disciple of Gregory Decapolites The Holy Martyr John the New of Ioannina (1526)	19 Ven. John of Ancient Caves in Palestine Our Holy Father Agathangelos (1819)	20 Ven. Theodore Trichinas Holy Apostle Zaccheus	21 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Hieromartyr Januarius and Companions	22 St Theodore the Sykeote Holy Martyr Leonidas (202) Our Holy Father, the monk Vitalis	23 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Greatmartyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George	24 Martyr Sabbas Stratelates
25 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark Saint Ananias, Second Bishop of Alexandria (1st c.)	26 St Stephen, Bishop of Perm Hieromartyr Basil, bishop of Amasia and Righteous Virgin Glaphyra (322)	27 Hieromartyr Simeon, Kinsman of the Lord Our Holy Father Stephen, Abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir (1094) Burning of the relics of St Sava I of Serbia by the Turks (1594)	28 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Midfeast of Pentecost Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy The Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus (3rd c.)	29 Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus St Basil, bishop of Ostrog in Montenegro (Serbia) (1671)	30 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Apostle James, Brother of St John St Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop of Stavropol and Kavkaz (1867)