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Our Holy Father David

Our Holy Father DavidBorn in Salonica, where he at first lived the ascetic life in a shelter he had built in an almond tree, he later continued his asceticism in Thessaly. He purified himself so greatly by fasting, prayer and vigils that he was made worthy to receive great grace from God. Once he took a live coal in his hand, placed incense on it and censed the Emperor with no sort of protection for his hand. The Emperor, when he saw this, bowed down to the ground before David, who amazed the people by his countless miracles. He entered peacefully into rest in the blessedness of eternity in 540.

Feast of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God

Feast of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of GodThis icon was in Constantinople in 1383, but, seventy years before the fall of that city, it suddenly appeared in the sky near the village of Tikhvin in northern Russia. A church and a monastery were built where it came to rest. Countless miracles were wrought through this wonderworking icon; many of the sick, especially, receiving healing from it.

Feast of the Hodigitria Icon of the Mother of God

Feast of the Hodigitria Icon of the Mother of GodLuke the Evangelist painted this icon on wood himself. When the most holy Mother of God saw it, she was pleased with it and blessed it. St Luke presented the icon to Theophilus, a state official for whom he wrote the Acts of the Apostles. The icon was later taken from Antioch to Jerusalem, and sent from there by the Empress Evdokia to Constantinople as a gift for Pulcheria, the Emperor"s devout sister. Pulcheria placed it in the Church of Blachernae, which was her own foundation. The most holy Mother of God once appeared to two blind men and led them into the church to her icon, and restored the sight of them both. For this reason, the icon has become known as "Hodigitria"- "She who shows the way". When the armies of the Persian king, Chozroes, and of Kagan, leader of the Scythians, attacked Constantinople, Patriarch Sergius carried the icon around he city ramparts, and the most holy Mother of God saved the Christians from the unbelievers. The forces of the enemy became confused. the sea began to heave about and the boats began to sink. The enemy soldiers who remained alive saved themselves by fleeing. Ever since then, a commemoration of this miracle wrought by the most holy Mother of God has been held on the Saturday of the Fifth Week of the Great Fast, with the reading of the Akathist. During the iconoclast period, this icon was taken to the monastery of the Pantocrator and sealed up in a wall with a burning lamp hanging before it. It was found later, unharmed by its immuring.

Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God of Lydda or Rome

Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God of Lydda or RomePatriarch Gennadius sent this icon to Rome for safety during the iconoclast persecution. It floated there on the water by itself, more swiftly than any ship, and, when the iconoclasts had tired of their persecution, floated back to Constantinople in the same way.

St. Dionysius, archbishop of Suzdal (1385)

St. Dionysius, archbishop of Suzdal (1385)Sainted Dionysii, Archbishop of Suzdal', in the world David, was tonsured at the Kievo-Pechersk monastery, from whence with a local blessing of an icon of the Mother of God from the founders Monks Antonii and Theodosii, he arrived at the Volga. Saint Dionysii dug out a cave not far from Nizhni-Novgorod and asceticised in total solitude. Brethren constantly thronged to the holy ascetic and in about the year 1335 he founded a monastery in honour of the Ascension-Voznesenie of the Lord. Among his students of Saint Dionysii were the Monks Evphymii of Suzdal' (Comm. 1 April) and Makarii of Zheltovodsk and Unzhensk (Comm. 25 July)...

New Martyr David of St. Anne's Skete, martyred in Thessalonica (1813)

New Martyr David of St. Anne's Skete, martyred in Thessalonica (1813)

St. Anthion, monk



April 2891
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New Martyr Nicholas of Karamanos in Smyrna (1657)
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St. martyr Longinus
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Martyrs Philemon and Domnina of Rome
3
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Martyrs Callinica and Basilissa of Rome (2nd c.)
4
oil
Saint Ipomoni - holy and right believing Empress Helen Dragas Palaiologos
5
oil
Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan (1552)
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oil
St. Senuphius the Wonderworker of Latomos (9th c.)
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Martyr Pullius the Reader.
8
oil
Prophet Hanani (Ananias)
9
water
Venerable Hilarion, monk, of Gdov (Pskov) (1476)
10
water
Venerables Jonah (1480) and Mark of the Pskov Caves
11
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Hieromartyr Zacharias, bishop of Corinth (1684)
12
water
St. Stephen the Wonderworker, monk
13
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Martyrs Geroncius and Basilides (3rd c.)
14
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+++ Palm Sunday (The Entry of our Lord into Jerusalem) - Cveti
15
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Venerable Nectarius, abbot, of Bezhetsk (1492
16
water
Venerable Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk (1550)
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Five girls martyred at Neanidor of Lesbos
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Thursday of Passion Week, Holy Thursday
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+++ Holy Friday, Good Friday
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strict fast
Holy Saturday
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strict fast
+++ Easter, Holy Pascha
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+++ Bright Monday, Renewal Monday
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+++  Bright Tuesday, Renewal Tuesday
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St. Basil, bishop of Ryazan (1295)
25
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Martyr Eleutherius of Persia (4th c.)
26
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New Martyr Demetrius of the Peloponnesus, who suffered at Tripoli (1803)
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St. Leonidas, bishop of Athens
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Monk-martyr Christopher
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Venerable Macarius of Corinth (1805)
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