12 Апреля 1840 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, April 12, 1840 (March 31, 1840 by the Julian calendar)
The 5-th Sunday of the Great Lent, Tone five

Great Lent. Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Lent). St. Hypatius the Wonderworker, bishop of Gangra (ca. 360). Repose of St. Jonah, metropolitan of Kiev, Moscow, and all Russia (1461). St. Innocent of Moscow, enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879). New Hieromartyr John priest (1938). Righteous Joseph the Fair, son of Jacob (ca. 1700 B.C.). St. Hypatius the Healer of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). St. Apollonius, ascetic of the Thebaid (395). Martyrs Abdas the Bishop and Benjamin the Deacon, of Persia (424). St. Hypatius, abbot of Rufinus in Chalcedon (446). Appearance of the "Iberian" ("Iveron") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. Saint Akakios the Confessor, Bishop of Meletinia (249-251). St. Blaise of Amorium and Mt. Athos (908) (Greek).