April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Apr. 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 22

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 4 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Hieromartyr Januarius of Benevento, bishop, and his companions Festus, Proculus, and Sosius, deacons; Desiderius, reader; and Eutychius and Acutius, laymen; at Pozzuoli. See Saint Proculus of Pozzuoli.
• Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and martyrs Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius
• Martyr Alexandra the Empress (same as April 23)
• Martyrs Isaacius, Apollo, and Codratus of Nicomedia
• Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
• Saint Niphont of Novgorod, bishop from the Kiev Caves

[edit] Other Commemorations

• Repose of Schemamonk Nicetas of Valaam (1907)