Orthodox Calendar
April 2023
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1

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-Holy Theotokos
  • Ven. Euthymius of Suzdal
  • Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt (4th-6th c.)

2

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Fifth Sunday of Lent
  • St Mary of Egypt
  • Ven. Titus the Wonderworker
  • Holy Martyrs Amphianus and Aedesius (ca. 306)

3

Lenten Fast

  • Ven. Nicetas the Confessor
  • Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (886)
  • Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949) (March 21 OC)

4

Lenten Fast

  • Ven. Joseph the Hymnographer
  • St Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (523)

5

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Martyrs Agathopedes, Theodulus and Their Companions
  • Our Holy Father Mark of Trache (ca. 400)

6

Lenten Fast

  • St Methodius, Enilightener of the Slavs
  • St Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582)

7

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • 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

Lenten Fast—Wine, Oil and Caviar are Allowed

  • Lazarus Saturday
  • Apostles of the Seventy Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufuf, Phlegon, Hermes
  • Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (432)

9

Lenten Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Palm Sunday: Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem
  • Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia

10

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Monday
  • Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus and Companions
  • Six Thousand Holy Martyrs in Georgia (1615)
  • New Hieromartyr Gregory, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)

11

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Tuesday
  • Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum
  • Holy Martyrs Processus and Martinian (1st c.)

12

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Wednesday
  • St Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium
  • St Isaac the Syrian, abbot of Spoleto, Italy (ca. 550)
  • Our Holy Mother Athanasia (860)

13

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Great and Holy Thursday
  • Hieromartyr Artemon, Presbyter of Laodicea
  • St Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655)

14

Lenten Fast—Strict Fast

  • Great and Holy Friday
  • St Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome
  • Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus of the Seventy
  • Holy Martyr Ardalion the Actor (3rd c.)

15

Lenten Fast—Wine is Allowed

  • Great and Holy Saturday
  • Apostles of the Seventy Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus
  • Holy Martyr Sabbas the Goth (372)

16

  • Holy Pascha
  • The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
  • Beginning of the Pentecostarion
  • Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia

17

  • Bright Monday
  • Ven. Zosima of Solovetsk
  • Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, and those with him (343)

18

  • Bright Tuesday
  • Ven. John, Disciple of Gregory Decapolites
  • The Holy Martyr John the New of Ioannina (1526)

19

  • Bright Wednesday
  • Ven. John of Ancient Caves in Palestine
  • Our Holy Father Agathangelos (1819)

20

  • Bright Thursday
  • Ven. Theodore Trichinas
  • Holy Apostle Zaccheus

21

  • Bright Friday
  • The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos
  • Hieromartyr Januarius and Companions

22

  • Bright Saturday
  • St Theodore the Sykeote
  • Holy Martyr Leonidas (202)
  • Our Holy Father, the monk Vitalis

23

  • Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha
  • St Thomas Sunday
  • Holy Greatmartyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George

24

  • Martyr Sabbas Stratelates

25

  • Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa)
  • Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark
  • Saint Ananias, Second Bishop of Alexandria (1st c.)

26

Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • 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—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • 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

  • 3rd Sunday of Pascha
  • Myrrhbearing Women
  • Holy Apostle James, Brother of St John
  • St Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop of Stavropol and Kavkaz (1867)