4 Мая 2024 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, May 4, 2024 (April 21, 2024 by the Julian calendar)
Passion Week: Great Saturday, descent into Hades

Great Lent. Hieromartyr Januarius, bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proclus, and Sosius, deacons; Desiderius, reader; and Eutychius and Acutius, laymen, at Pozzuoli (305). Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and Martyrs Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius (2nd c.). St. Alexis, priest of Bortsumany, Nizhni-Novgorod (1848). St. Nicolos confessor, priest (1933). Martyrs Isaacius, Apollo, and Codratus of Nicomedia (303). Martyr Alexandra the Empress (303). St. Maximus (Maximian), patriarch of Constantinople (434). St. Niphon, bishop of Novgorod (Kiev Caves). St. Beuno, abbot of Clynnog, England (ca. 640) (Celtic & British). St. Maelruba of Apur Crossan (722) (Celtic & British). St. Anastasius of Sinai (beg. of 8th c.). Uncovering of the relics (1999) of St. Theodore of Sanaxar (1791).