2 Апреля 1870 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, April 2, 1870 (March 21, 1870 by the Julian calendar)
4^th Week of the Great Lent, Tone seven

Great Lent. ::Parents’ Saturday. Remembrance of the dead. St. James the Confessor, bishop, of the Studium (late 8th c.). Venerable Seraphim Vyritsky (1949). St. Cyril, bishop of Catania (2nd c.). St. Thomas, patriarch of Constantinople (610). St. Serapion, bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt, friend of St. Anthony the Great (358). New Martyr Archbishop Theodore Pozdeyev (1938). Pachomius, monk, of Nerekhta.. St. Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949). St. Lupicinus, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains (480) (Gaul). St. Enda of Aran, monk, earliest leader of Irish monas-ticism (530) (Celtic & British). Martyrs Philemon and Domnina of Rome (Greek). St. Beryllus, bishop of Catania (2nd c.). St. Sophronius, abbot of the monastery of St. Theodosius (542). New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (1544). St. Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (542).