27 Апреля 1979 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Friday, April 27, 1979 (April 14, 1979 by the Julian calendar)
Bright Week

Entire week. "Life- giving Spring" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). Commemoration of the renewal (sanctification) of the Holy Theotokos temple near the Life-giving Spring in Constantinople (5th c.) (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). "Pochaev" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). St. Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655). New Hieromartyr Alexander confessor, priest (1941). Martyrs Anthony, John and Eustathius of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1347). Martyr Ardalion the Actor, who suffered under Maximian (3rd c.). Martyr Azat the Eunuch and 1,000 Martyrs in Persia (341). Monk-martyr Christopher of Mar Sabbas (797). "Vilna" Icon of the Mother of God. St. Cyriacus, bishop of Jerusalem (4th c.) (Greek). Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens, and Trophimus of the Seventy (Greek). New Martyr Sergius (Trofimov) of Nizhni-Novgorod and one with him (1918). New Martyr Demetrius of the Peloponnesus, who suffered at Tripoli (1803).