April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 4 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – April 6

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 18 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For April 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 23.

Saints

• Martyrs Claudius, Diodorus, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Serapion and Nicephorus, at Corinth (251 or 258)^{[1][2][note 2]}
• Martyrs Theodulus, Reader, and Agathopodes, Deacon, and those with them, at Thessaloniki (c. 303)^[3][4][5] (see also: April 4 - Greek)
• Martyrs Zenon, by fire,^[1][6] Maximus, Terentius and Pompeius, by the sword (250)^{[1][7][8][note 3]} (see also: October 28, March 13, April 10)
• Martyr Thermos (Fermus, Firmus), by fire.^[1][4][10]
• The Holy Noble Lady (sister of martyr Thermos/Fermus), and her Servant, martyrs, by the sword.^[4][11]
• Holy Five Young Virgin-Martyrs of Lesbos, by the sword.^{[1][4][9][12][note 4]}
• Virgin-martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, of Alexandria (304)^[1][3][13] (see also: May 27)
• Venerable Martyr Ypomoni (Hypomoni, Evpomoni).^{[1][14][note 5]}
• Venerable Publius of Egypt, monk (4th century)^[3][4][15] (see also: April 4 - Greek)
• Saints Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus, of Egypt (4th century)^[3][4] (see also: April 4 - Greek)
• Venerable Mark the Anchorite of Athens (ca. 400)^{[3][4][16][17]}
• Venerable Plato the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion (813)^[3][4][18] (see also: April 4 - Greek)
• Venerable Theodora of Thessaloniki (886)^{[1][3][19][20]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Holy Martyrs of North-West Africa, a large group martyred at the Easter liturgy by Genseric, the Arian King of the Vandals (459)^{[21][22][note 6]}
• Saint Bécán (Began), one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland' (6th century)^{[21][23][24][note 7]}
• Venerable Derfel-Gadarn, a soldier and afterwards a hermit in Llanderfel in Gwynedd in Wales (6th century)^[3][21] (see also: April 6 - Greek)
• Saint Æthelburh of Kent (c. 647)^[25]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Argyre the Neomartyr of Prussa (1721)^{[26][note 8]}
• New Martyr George of New Ephesus (1801)^{[1][3][4][28]}
• New Martyr Panagiotes of Jerusalem (1820)^{[3][4][29][30][note 9]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Alexis Krotenkov, Priest (1930)^[4][16]
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Simo, Archpriest, of Kronstadt (1931)^[3][4][16]

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1652) of St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow (1607)^{[3][4][16][31][32]}
• Martyrdom of the Optina monastics (Optina martyrs) on Pascha (1993):^{[note 10]}

• Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov); with Riassaphore-monks Therapontus (Pushkarev), and Trophimus (Tatarinov).^[3]

• Repose of Righteous Symeon Klimych (1837)^[3]
• Repose of Elder Philemon of Valaam and Jordanville (1953)^[3]

Icon gallery

• 
  Patriarch Job of Moscow.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. They are commemorated on January 31, their main feast day.
3. "The same day, St. Zeno, martyr, who was flayed alive, besmeared with pitch, and then cast into the fire."^[9]
4. On Mount Livanon (Lebanon) on Lesbos, there existed a convent dedicated to the Holy Five Martyrs, which was referenced in a Synodic decision of the year 1331.
5. Her memory is recorded in the Vatopedi codex 1104 p.98b, and in the Synaxarion of Constantinople on April 9.
6. "In Africa, the holy martyrs, who, in the persecution of the Arian king Genseric, were murdered in the church on Easter day. The lector, whilst singing Alleluia at the stand, was pierced through the throat with an arrow."^[9]
7. He was related to St Columba and founded a monastery in Kill-Beggan in Westmeath. He also gave his name to the church and parish of Imleach-Becain in Meath.
8. The translation of her relics took place on April 30, 1725, and is celebrated on April 30.^[27]
9. St Panagiotis was born in Peloponnesus, in his ignorance of Islamic law he entered the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem and some fanatic Turks grabbed him and brought him before the Pasha of Damascus as a defiler of the Islamic temple. The Pasha offered him the chance of becoming a Muslim in order to avoid death. Panagiotis remained steadfast to his Christian faith, and for that reason he was beheaded on April 5, 1820, as he was chanting "Christ is Risen!" before several Muslims. He was 25 years old.
10. See: (in Russian) Убийство монахов в Оптиной пустыни. Википедия (Russian Wikipedia).