April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 12 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 14

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 26 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For April 13, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 31.

Saints

• Saints Theodosia the Princess (daughter of Emperor Hadrian), and the Eunuch Gerontios (c. 117-138)^{[1][2][note 2]}
• Martyrs Dadas, Quinctillian and Maximus, the Lectors (c. 284-305)^{[2][3][4][note 3]} (see also: April 28, August 2)
• Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia (3rd century)^[6][7][8] (see also: April 15 - Greek)
• Hieromartyr Artemon, priest of Laodicea in Syria (303)^[6][7][9] (see also: March 24, April 12 - Greek)
• Martyrs Eleutherius of Persia, and Zoilus, by beheading (4th century)^[2][6][10]
• Martyr Theodosius, by the sword.^[2][7][11]
• Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (476)^[6][7][12] (see also: April 14 - Greek)
• Saint Martyrius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (486)^[6][7]
• Saint Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (655)^{[2][6][13][14][note 4]} (see also: April 14 - Slavic)
• Two Confessor Bishops, who were exiled to the Crimean peninsula together with St. Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (ca. 655)^[15] (compare also with: Bishops Sergiy, Pir and Theodor, April 14 - Romanian)
• Venerable martyr Christophoros, of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified.^[16]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Ursus, Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (396)^{[5][14][note 5]}
• Saint Martius, Abbot, of Clermont in Gaul (c. 530)^{[6][7][14][note 6]}
• Saint Hermenegild, son of the Visigothic King of Spain, Leovigild (586)^{[14][17][note 7][note 8]}
• Saint Guinoch of Buchan (Guinoc, Guinochus), a Bishop in Scotland (ca. 838)^[7][14]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Arsenios of Elassonna (Arsenius of Suzdal), Archbishop of Elassona (1625)^{[18][note 9]} (see also: April 29)
• Venerable Herman, Archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1890)^{[6][note 10]}
• Saint Anastasia (Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg), nun and foundress of the Holy Protection Convent (Pokrovsky) in Kiev (1900)^{[6][note 11]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk (1933)^{[7][19][note 12]}
• Virgin-martyr Martha Testova (1941)^[7][20]

Other commemorations

• Repose of Archimandrite Herman of Svyatogorsk (1890)^[6]
• Translation of the relics (1967) of the Holy New Martyr George of Cyprus (1752)^{[21][note 13]}
• Repose of Elder Cosmas of Pantokratoros monastery, Mt. Athos (1970)^[6]

Icon gallery

• 
  Saint Martin the Confessor (Menologion of Basil II)
• 
  Saint Hermenegild (Francisco Herrera, 1684)
• 
  Reliquary of St. Arsenios of Elassonna, in the Theotokos-Nativity Cathedral of the Kremlin.
• 
  Venerable Herman, Archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery.
• 
  Sister Anastasia, formerly Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna
• 
  New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk.

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. Their memory is not recorded in the Synaxaristes. We know about the saints from the Lavriotiko Codex I 70, where they are both referenced.
3. "The same day, the martyrdom of the Saints Maximus, Quinctillian, and Dadas, during the persecution of Diocletian.".^[5]
   See also August 2 for the Translation of their Relics.
4. Born in Umbria, he was elected Pope of Rome in 649. He called a Council at once and condemned Monothelitism. Imperial wrath fell on him and in 653 he was deported to Naxos in the Aegean. The following year he was condemned to death at a mock trial and finally taken as a prisoner to the Chersonese where he died of starvation.
5. Born in a noble family in Sicily, he converted and fled from his father's wrath to Ravenna in Italy, where he became bishop in 378. He built the original basilica to the Resurrection of Our Lord (called Anastasis in the Byzantine period)
6. Born in Auvergne in France, he lived an ascetic life on a mountainside and later built a monastery for his disciples.
7. Son of the Visigothic King of Spain, Leovigild, he was brought up as an Arian in Seville. He became Orthodox on his marriage to the daughter of Sigebert of Austrasia, at which his father disinherited him. Hermenegild rose up in arms, was defeated, captured and refusing to give up his Faith, was martyred at the instigation of his stepmother.
8. "At Seville, in Spain, St. Hermenegild, son of Leovigild, Arian king of the Visigoths, who was incarcerated for the confession of the Catholic faith. By order of his wicked father he was beheaded because he had refused to receive communion from an Arian bishop, on the Paschal solemnity, and thus exchanging an earthly for a heavenly kingdom, he entered the abode of the blessed, both as a king and as a martyr."^[5]
9. See: (in Russian) Арсений Элассонский. Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
10. See: (in Russian) Герман (Клица). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
11. See: (in Russian) Покровский монастырь (Киев). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
12. See: (in Russian) Стефан (Бех). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
13. His feast day is on April 23.