April 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 24

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 6 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

  • Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George
  • Martyrs Anatolius and Protolcon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of Saint George
  • Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian
  • Martyrs Glycerius, Athanasius the Magician, Valerius, Donatus, and Therinus at Nicomedia
  • Blessed George of Shenkursk, Fool-for-Christ
  • New martyr George of Ptolomais
  • Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria who suffered at Pergamus
  • Russian new martyr Priest Igor (George) of the Spas-Chekriak village (1918)