19 Апреля 2017 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 (April 6, 2017 by the Julian calendar)
Bright Week

Entire week. Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Holy Mount Sinai (movable holiday on the Wednesday of the Bright Week). “Kasperov” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Wednesday of the Bright Week). St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582). + St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, enlightener of the Slavs (885). New Hieromartyr John priest (1934). New Hieromartyr James priest (1943). St. Sebastian, Elder of Optina and Karaganda (1966). St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (308). 120 Martyrs of Persia (345). Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias the Presbyter. St. Gregory of St. Athanasius monastery on Mt. Athos, instructor of St. Gregory Palamas (1308). St. Gregory the Sinaite (1346). New Martyr Nicholas of Lesbos (1463). New Monk-martyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, who suffered at Constantinople (1818). New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace (1835).