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April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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April 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 8

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 20 by Eastern 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

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Pre-Schism Western saints

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Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Arcadius Dobronravov, Archpriest, of Tsivilsk, Chuvashia (1933)[1][10][12]
  • Martyr Eudocia Pavlovoy (1939)[10][12]

Other commemorations

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. A Jew born in Jerusalem, he spent twenty years of his life in Rome. He is considered to be the father of Church History but only a few chapters of his work remain.[3]
  3. "At Rome, St. Hegesippus, who lived near the time of the Apostles. He came to Rome whilst Anicetus was Sovereign Pontiff, and remained till the accession of Eleutherius. He wrote the history of the Church in a simple style, from the Passion of our Lord to his own time, and delineated in his narrative the character of those whose lives he imitated."[4]
  4. He built a cell and church at a place called Carn-Englyi (Mountain of the Angels), overhanging Nefyn in Gwynedd in Wales.
  5. "Brenach, otherwise called Brynach or Bernach, was a hermit, who inhabited a lonely cell in the neighbourhood of Milford, and led a life of great sanctity and wonderful austerity. No ancient record of his life has been preserved, and his Acts, as they are now found, being written many centuries after his death, cannot be considered authentic."[17]
  6. Born in Munster in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Brendan. He founded a monastery at Kinnitty in Offaly of which he is the patron.
  7. Several churches are dedicated to him in Cornwall.
  8. He and his monks fled from the monastery but the barbarians found them and martyred them.
  9. His service is celebrated on June 1.[1]
  10. The Byzantine Icon of the Mother of God appeared on 7 April 732. It was transferred to Russia from Rome. (Commemorated on April 7, May 1).[10]
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