23 Апреля 1993 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Friday, April 23, 1993 (April 10, 1993 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). Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus, Maximus, Zeno, Alexander, Theodore, and 33 others, beheaded at Carthage (250). New Hieromartyr Flegont priest (1938). Martyr Demetrius (1942). Martyrs James, presbyter, and Azadanes and Abdicius, deacons, of Persia (ca. 380). Prophetess Huldah (Olda) (II Kings 22:14). St. Milteades, pope of Rome. The Holy Martyrs of the Kvabtakhevi Convent (Georgia), who suffered during the invasion of Tamerlane (1386). New Martyr Demos of Smyrna (1763) (Greek). New Hieromartyr Gregory V, patriarch of Constantinople (1821) (Greek). Nun-martyr Anastasia, abbess of Uglich and 34 nuns with her (1609).