April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
April 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 8
All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 20 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For April 7th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 25.
Saints
- Saint Hegesippus the Chronicler, of Palestine (c. 180)[1][2][note 2][note 3]
- Hieromartyr Rufinus the Deacon, the Martyr Aquilina, and 200 soldiers with them, at Sinope (c. 249-251)[1][4][5][6]
- Martyr Calliopios, at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304)[1][4][7][8][9]
- Saint Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (5th century)[1][10][11][12] (see also: March 21 and May 14)
- Saint George, Patriarch of Jerusalem (807)[1][10]
- Saint George the Confessor (George the Standard-Bearer), Bishop of Mytilene, exiled to Kherson (820)[1][13][14]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Saturninus, Bishop of Verona and Confessor (4th century)[3][4]
- Hieromartyr Epiphanius, Bishop in North Africa, with Rufinus the Deacon, Donatus, and Companions – thirteen martyrs.[3][4][15]
- Vanerable Brynach of Wales (Brenach, Bemach, Bemacus) (6th century)[1][3][16][note 4][note 5]
- Saint Finan (Finnian) (6th century)[3][18][note 6]
- Saint Goran (Guron, Goronus, Woranus), who lived at Bodmin before St Petroc (6th century)[3][note 7]
- Saints Llewellyn (LLywelyn) and Gwrnerth, monks from Wales who lived in Welshpool and later on Bardsey (6th century)[3]
- Saint Gibardus, Abbot of Luxeuil in France during the invasion of the Huns (ca. 888)[3][note 8]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)[1][10][19]
- Venerable Nilus of Sora, founder of Sora Skete, Belozersk (1508)[1][10] (see also: May 7)
- Venerable Daniel of Pereyaslavl, founder of St. Daniel Monastery (1540)[1][20][21]
- Venerable Gerasimus the Byzantine, Hieromonk, of Patmos (1770)[1][10][22]
- Saint Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk (1862)[1]
- Venerable Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind, of Valaam Monastery (1905)[1][23]
- Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947)[24] (see also: March 25 - os; also the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Arcadius Dobronravov, Archpriest, of Tsivilsk, Chuvashia (1933)[1][10][12]
- Martyr Eudocia Pavlovoy (1939)[10][12]
Other commemorations
- Icon of the Mother of God "of Byzantium" (The Byzantine Icon) (732)[10][25][note 9]
- Uncovering of the relics (1517) of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516)[1][25]
- Repose of Schemamonk Theodore of Svir (1822)[1]
- Repose of Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind, of Valaam (1905)[1]
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