April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Apr. 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Apr. 29

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 11 by Old Calendarists

Contents

Saints

  • Theognes, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Arcemas, Magnus, Theodorus, Thaumasius, and Philemon

Other commemorations

Notes

  1. ^ The "Great Synaxaristes" lists the following Saints and Martyrs for April 28th; however they are listed for April 29th in the Slavonic menaion:
    • Nine martyrs at Cyzicus:
    • Theognes, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Arcemas, Magnus, Theodorus, Thaumasius, and Philemon
    Similarly, the "Great Synaxaristes" lists the following Saints and Martyrs for April 29th; however they are listed for April 28th in the Slavonic menaion:
    • Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy, and:
    • Virgin Martyr Cercyra
    • Martyrs Saturninus, Jakischolus (Inischolus), Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius, Mammius - the holy seven former theives;
    • Martyrs Vitalius and his wife Valeria
    • Martyr Zenon
    • Martyr Neon
  2. ^ There is another Saint Auxibius (+102), whose feast day is on February 17.[12][13]
  3. ^ By tradition he was one of four pilgrims from England - the other three were Ardwine, Bernard and Hugh - they all reposed in Gallinaro in the south of Italy. Many scholars doubt their historicity.

References

  1. ^ a b c April 28. The Roman Martyrology.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h April 28. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  3. ^ Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). St. Patricius, Bishop of Prusa, in Bithynia, Martyr. The Lives of the Saints, Volume IV: April. 1866. (Bartleby.com).
  4. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Μέμνων ὁ Θαυματουργός. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  5. ^ a b April 29/May 12. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  6. ^ Venerable Memnon the Wonderworker. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  7. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐννέα Μάρτυρες ἐν Κυζίκῳ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  8. ^ Martyr Philemon at Cyzicus. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  9. ^ a b c d e May 11 / April 28. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  10. ^ Bishop Nikolai Velimirovch. The Prologue from Ohrid. April 28.
  11. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐξίβιος Β’ Ἐπίσκοπος Σόλων τῆς Κύπρου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  12. ^ St Auxibius Bishop of Soli, Cyprus. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  13. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐξίβιος Ἐπίσκοπος Σόλων Κύπρου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  14. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύριλλος Ἐπίσκοπος Τούρωφ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  15. ^ a b April 28/May 11. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  16. ^ Διήγηση γενομένου θαύματος ἐν Καρθαγένῃ Βορείου Ἀφρικῆς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  17. ^ The Miracle at Carthage. Full of Grace and Truth (blog). Wednesday, April 28, 2010.

Sources

Greek Sources