2 Апреля 1947 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, April 2, 1947 (March 20, 1947 by the Julian calendar)
The 6-th Sunday of the Great Lent (ваий), Tone one

Great Lent. The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St.Sabbas: Sts. John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796). Suffering of St. Euphrosynus of Blue-Jay Lake (Valaam) (1612). Martyr Photina (Fatima, Svetlana) the Samaritan Woman and her sons: Martyrs Victor named Photinos, and Josiah with Anatolia, Photo, Photida, Paraskeva, Kyriakia, Domnina and Sebastian (66). Seven Virgin-martyrs of Amisus (Samsun): Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia (310). St. Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813). New Martyr Myron of Crete (1793). St. Martin of Braga in Iberia (580). St. Wulfram, missionary (703) (Neth.). St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, bishop (687) (Celtic & British). Righteous Abel, first martyr in history of mankind. St. Austreigiselis, bishop of Bourges (624) (Neth.). Martyr Michael the Sabbaite, who suffered at Jerusalem (691). St. Archil II, king of Georgia (744). New Hieromartyr Priest Nicholas Holz of Novosiolki (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944).