April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 23 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For April 10th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 28.

Saints

• Prophetess Huldah (Olda) (IV Kings 22:14)[1][2]
• Martyrs Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others, including Zeno, Alexander, and Theodore, at Carthage (250)[1][3][4][note 2][note 3] (see also: October 28, March 13, April 5)
• Saint Miltiades, Pope of Rome (314)[1][6][note 4]
• Hieromartyrs James the Presbyter, and the Deacons Azadanes and Abdicius, of Persia (c. 380)[1][7][8]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs of Rome (c. 115)[5][note 5][note 6]
• Saint Palladius, Abbot of St Germanus in Auxerre, he became bishop there and founded several monasteries (661)[5]
• Martyrs Beocca, Ethor and others, at Chertsey Abbey, by the Danes (869)[5][10][11][note 7]
• Saint Bede the Younger, a court official who became a monk at the monastery of Gavello near Rovigo (883)[5][12]
• Saint Macarius of Antioch (1012)[5][9][13][note 8]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• The Holy Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi Monastery, Georgia, who suffered during the invasion of Tamerlane (1386)[1][14][15]
• Nun-martyr Anastasia, Abbess, and 34 nuns with her, of Uglich (1609)[1][16]
• Venerable martyrs of the Daou Penteli Monastery, in Penteli, by Algerian pirate raiders, (end-17th century)[17][note 9]
• New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Acre, Palestine (1753)[1]
• New Martyr Demos (Demetrios) of Smyrna (1763)[1][19][20][note 10]
• New Hieromartyr Gregory V, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)[1][20][21][22][note 11]
• Seven Hieromartyr Bishops, arrested together with Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V, subsequently martyred by the Ottoman Turks at the start of the Greek War of Independence (1821):[24][25][note 12]

• Eugenios of Anchialos.[note 13]
• Iosif of Thessaloniki.[note 14] (see also: June 3)
• Gregorios of Derkoi.[note 15] (see also: June 3)
• Dionysios of Ephesus.[note 16]
• Dorotheos of Andrianople.[note 17] (see also: June 3)
• Athanasios of Nicomedia.[note 18]
• Ioannichios of Tarnovo.[note 19]

• New Monk-martyr Chrysanthus of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos, on Pascha (1821)[1][26]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Flegont Pongilsky, Archpriest, of Yaroslavl (1938)[1][10][22][note 20]
• Martyr Demetrius Vdovin (1942)[10][22]

Other commemorations

• Consecration of Ioasaph (Bolotov) as Bishop of Kodiak, Alaska (1799)[1]

Icon gallery

• 
  Icon of Saint Miltiades, Pope of Rome.
• 
  Hanging of Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. Terence, Africanus, Pompeius and Companions:
   A group of fifty martyrs, imprisoned with snakes and scorpions and finally beheaded in Carthage in North Africa under Decius.[5]
3. Name days celebrated today include:
   • Anaximenes (Ἀναξιμένης); Demosthenes (Δημοσθένης); Epaminondas (Ἐπαμεινώνδας); Eteocles (Ἐτεοκλής); Heracles (Ἠρακλῆς); Theseus (Θησέας); Isocrates (Ἰσοκράτης); Makarios (Μακάριος); Homer (Ὅμηρος); Parmenion (Παρμενίων); Pelopidas (Πελοπίδας); Pericles (Περικλῆς); Polybius (Πολύβιος); Polynikos (Πολύνικος); Prometheus (Προμηθέας); Sophocles (Σοφοκλῆς); Philopoimen (Φιλοποίμην); Fokion (Φωκίων).
4. Name days celebrated today include:
   • Miltiades (Μιλτιάδης).
5. A number of criminals baptised by Pope Alexander during his imprisonment. They were taken to Ostia near Rome and put on board a boat which was then scuttled.
6. "At Rome, the birthday of many holy martyrs, whom pope St. Alexander baptized whilst he was detained in prison. The prefect Aurelian had them all put in an old ship, taken to the deep sea, and plunged into it with stones tied to their necks."[9]
7. In their onslaught on England, the Danes attacked monasteries in particular. They martyred Sts Beocca, Abbot, Ethor, monk-priest and some ninety monks at Chertsey in Surrey; at Peterborough they martyred St Hedda, Abbot, and others at his monastery; at Thorney, St Torthred and others.[5]
8. Born in Antioch, he was a bishop who travelled westwards as a pilgrim and was received by monks at the monastery of St Bavo in Ghent in Belgium.
9. The Monastery lies on the eastern slope of Penteli, on the road to Rafina-Pikermi, near a ravine. It is a monastic complex consisting of the katholikon, the cells, the Refectory, a fountain and a Byzantine defense tower in the entrance gate. The Monastery was destroyed in the end of the 17th century by Algerian pirates’ raids, who slaughtered the monks, whose heads and relics are displayed in a building of the monastic complex.[18]
   • See also: (in Greek) Νταού Πεντέλης Αττικής. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
10. Name days celebrated today include:
    • Demos (Δῆμος).
11. "The holy patriarch-martyr was hanged over the door to the Phanarion and later his body was thrown into the Bosphoros. Ukrainian sailors retrieved his body, thinking him to have been a priest martyred by the Turks. At Odesa, he was positively identified as the patriarch and enshrined there until his glorification as a sainted hieromartyr and return to Athens where he is now enshrined. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has placed his name in its own calendar, especially owing to his great veneration by Ukrainians. The translation of his relics took place on 25/4/1871."[23]
12. On the occasion of the two hundred years since the martyrdom of Patriarch Gregory I on 10 April 1821, with the recommendation of the Accompanying Committee on Legal and Doctrinal Issues, and on the proposals of the Most Reverend Metropolitans Chrysostomos of Patras, Theophilos of Lefkados and Ithaca, and Markos of Chios, Psara and Oinousses, the Permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece decided to inscribe in the hagiological lists of the church seven other hierarchs who were arrested together with Patriarch Gregory V on the same day, and were subsequently hanged, confessing the faith.[24][25]
13. See also: (in Greek) Ευγένιος Καραβίας. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
14. See also: (in Greek) Ιωσήφ Αντωνόπουλος. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
15. See also: (in Greek) Γρηγόριος ο Δέρκων. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
16. See also: (in Greek) Διονύσιος Καλλιάρχης. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
17. See also: (in Greek) Δωρόθεος Πρώιος. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
18. See also: (in Greek) Αθανάσιος Νικομηδείας. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
19. See also: (in Bulgarian) Йоаникий Търновски. Уикипедия. (Bulgarian Wikipedia).
20. See: (in Russian) Понгильский, Флегонт Николаевич. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).

References

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2. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Ὄλδα ἡ Προφήτης. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
3. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀφρικανός, Θεόδωρος, Μάξιμος, Πομπήιος καὶ Τερέντιος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς τριάντα ἐννέα Μάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
4. Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
5. April 10. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
6. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Μιλτιάδης πάπας Ρώμης. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
7. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἀζᾶς οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
8. Martyr James the Presbyter of Persia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
9. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 101.
10. April 23 / April 10. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
11. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 151.
12. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Bede the Younger, MK. (A.D. 883.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 132-133.
13. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Macarius of Antioch, B. (A.D. 1012.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 133-135.
14. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν Καμπτακούιᾳ τῆς Γεωργίας Μάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
15. Martyrs of the Kvabtakhevi Monastery. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
16. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ὁσία Ἀναστασία ἡγουμένη τοῦ Οὔγκλιχ. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
17. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν τῇ μονῇ Νταοὺ Πεντέλης οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
18. Daou, Monastery, Penteli (Raphina). Byzantine Monuments of Attica. Retrieved: 02 February, 2014.
19. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος (ἢ Δῆμος) ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ ἁλιεὺς. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
20. (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 10 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).
21. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ε’ Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
22. (in Russian) 10 апреля (ст.ст.) 23 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.
23. Dr. Alexander Roman. April. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
24. (in Greek) Δελτία Τύπου της Ιεράς Συνόδου: Δεύτερη συνεδρία της Δ.Ι.Σ. για το μήνα Ιούλιο. Διαρκούς Ιεράς Συνόδου της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος (ecclesia.gr). Αθήνα, 15 Ιουλίου 2021.
25. Greek CHurch Canonizes Dozens of Martyrs, Ecclesiastical Teachers. Orthodox Christianity. Athens, July 16, 2021. Retrieved: July 17, 2021.
26. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Χρύσανθος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ξενοφωντινός. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.

Sources

• April 10 / April 23. Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).
• April 23 / April 10. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• April 10. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas. St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). pp. 27–28.
• April 10. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 101.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 151.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 10 Απριλιου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 10 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 23 апреля (10 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 10 апреля (ст.ст.) 23 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.