16 Апреля 1857 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, April 16, 1857 (April 4, 1857 by the Julian calendar)
Passion Week: Great Thursday

Great Lent. St. Joseph the Hymnographer of Sicily (883). St. George, monk, of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus (9th c.). New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Benjamin (Kononov) and Hieromonk Nicephorus (Kuchin) of Solovki (1928). New Hieromartyr Nicolos bishop of Velsk (1932). St. Joseph the Muchailing of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). St. Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk (1550). St. Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (560). Virgin-martyr Pherbutha of Persia, her sister and servants (343). New Hieromartyr Nicetas the Serb of Albania, Mt. Athos and Serres (1808). St. Theonas, metropolitan of Thessalonica (1541). St. Isidore, bishop of Seville (636). St. James of Old Torzhok in Galich, Kostroma (15th-16th c.). Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1602).