6 Мая 1842 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Friday, May 6, 1842 (April 24, 1842 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). Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him (272). Sts. Sabbas (13th c.) and Alexius the Hermit of the Kiev Caves. Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine and Julius in Moesia (Bulgaria) (228). Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and others at Nicomedia (303). St. Thomas the Fool of Syria (550). St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople (540). Saint Luke, Tailor of Mytilene (1564). New Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia (1795). "Molchensk" Icon (1405) of the Mother of God. Martyr Alexander of Lyons (177) (Gaul). St. Elias (Iorest) (1678) and St. Sava (Brancovici) (1683), metropolitans of Ardeal, confessors against the Calvinists (Transylvania). St. Joseph the Confessor, bishop of Maramures (1711) (Romania). St. Wilfrid, archbishop of York (709) (Celtic & British). St. Egbert, bishop of Iona (729) (Celtic & British). New Martyr Doukas of Mitylene (1564) (Greek). St. Innocent, presbyter on the Mount of Olives (4th c.). St. Xenophon, founder of the monastery of St. George (Xenophontos) on Mt. Athos (1018). New Martyr George in Anatolia (1796). St. Alexis Toth, priest of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania (1909). Hieromartyr Branko of Veljusa, Serbia (1941).