April 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 7 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

  • Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him
  • Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and others at Nicomedia
  • Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine, and Julius in Moesia (Bulgaria)
  • Saint Thomas the Fool of Syria
  • Saint Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople
  • Saints Sabbas and Alexius the Hermit of the Kiev Caves
  • Martyr Doukas of Mitylene
  • Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia
  • Martyr Alexander of Lyons
  • Saints Iorest and Sava Brancovici, metropolitans of Ardeal, confessors against the Calvinists

[edit] Other Commemorations

  • Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam (1947)