April 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Apr. 21 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus of Hyrcania, Rufus, Phlegon, and Hermes of the Seventy Apostles, and those with them
• Pope Celestine I of Rome
• Martyr Pausilippus of Heraclea in Thrace
• Saint Niphont, Bishop of Novgorod
• Saint Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Caves
• Martyr John Naukliros ("the Skipper") in Thessaly

[edit] Other Commemorations

• Spanish Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
• Repose of Righteous Helen Voronova, disciple of Elder Barsanuphius of Optina (1916)