April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 26 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For April 13, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 31.

Saints

• Saints Theodosia the Princess (daughter of Emperor Hadrian), and the Eunuch Gerontios (ca. 117-138)^{[1][2][note 2]}
• Martyrs Dadas, Quinctillian and Maximus, the Lectors (ca. 284-305)^{[2][3][note 3]}
• Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia (3rd century)^[5][6][7] (see also: April 15 - Greek)
• Hieromartyr Artemon, priest of Laodicea in Syria (303)^[5][6][8] (see also: April 12 - Greek)
• Martyrs Eleutherius of Persia, and Zoilus, by beheading (4th century)^[2][5][9]
• Martyr Theodosius, by the sword.^[2][6][10]
• Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (476)^[5][6][11] (see also: April 14 - Greek)
• Saint Martyrius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (486)^[5][6]
• Saint Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (655)^{[2][12][13][note 4]} (see also: April 14 - Slavonic)
• Two Confessor Bishops, who were exiled to the Crimean peninsula together with St. Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (ca. 655)^[14]
• Venerable martyr Christophoros, of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified.^[15]

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Saint Ursus, Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (396)^{[4][13][note 5]}
• Saint Martius, Abbot, of Clermont in Gaul (ca. 530)^{[5][6][13][note 6]}
• Saint Hermenegild, son of the Visigothic King of Spain, Leovigild (586)^{[13][note 7][note 8]}
• Saint Guinoch of Buchan (Guinoc, Guinochus), a Bishop in Scotland (ca. 838)^[6][13]

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• Saint Arsenios of Elassonna (Arsenius of Suzdal), Archbishop of Elassona (1625)^{[16][note 9]} (see also: April 29)
• Saint Anastasia (Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg), nun and foundress of the Holy Protection Convent (Pokrovsky) in Kiev (1900)^{[5][17][note 10]}

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk (1933)^{[6][18][note 11]}
• Holy New Martyrs of Vasiliisk in St Nicholas’ Eparchy in Ukraine (1937):^[17]

• New Hieromartyr Sergius Shtenko
• Martyrs Prochor Bunchuk and St Cyril Preymak

• Virgin-martyr Martha Testova (1941)^[6][19]

Other Commemorations

• Repose of Archimandrite Herman of Svyatogorsk (1890)^[5]
• Translation of the relics (1967) of the Holy New Martyr George of Cyprus (1752)^{[20][note 12]}
• Repose of Elder Cosmas of Pantokratoros monastery, Mt. Athos (1970)^[5]

Icon Gallery

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  Saint Martin the Confessor (Menologion of Basil II)

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  Saint Hermenegild (Francisco Herrera, 1684)

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  Sister Anastasia, formerly Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna

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. Their memory is not recorded in the Synaxaristes. We know about the saints from the Lavriotiko Codex I 70, where they are both referenced.
3. "The same day, the martyrdom of the Saints Maximus, Quinctillian, and Dadas, during the persecution of Dioletian.".^[4] See also August 2 for the Translation of their Relics.
4. Born in Umbria, he was elected Pope of Rome in 649. He called a Council at once and condemned Monothelitism. Imperial wrath fell on him and in 653 he was deported to Naxos in the Aegean. The following year he was condemned to death at a mock trial and finally taken as a prisoner to the Chersonese where he died of starvation.
5. Born in a noble family in Sicily, he converted and fled from his father's wrath to Ravenna in Italy, where he became bishop in 378. He built the original basilica to the Resurrection of Our Lord (called Anastasis in the Byzantine period)
6. Born in Auvergne in France, he lived an ascetic life on a mountainside and later built a monastery for his disciples.
7. Son of the Visigothic King of Spain, Leovigild, he was brought up as an Arian in Seville. He became Orthodox on his marriage to the daughter of Sigebert of Austrasia, at which his father disinherited him. Hermenegild rose up in arms, was defeated, captured and refusing to give up his Faith, was martyred at the instigation of his stepmother.
8. "AT Seville, in Spain, St. Hermenegild, son of Leovigild, Arian king of the Visigoths, who was incarcerated for the confession of the Catholic faith. By order of his wicked father he was beheaded because he had refused to receive communion from an Arian bishop, on the Paschal solemnity, and thus exchanging an earthly for a heavenly kingdom, he entered the abode of the blessed, both as a king and as a martyr."^[4]
9. See: (Russian) Арсений Элассонский. Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
10. See: (Russian) Покровский монастырь (Киев). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
11. See: (Russian) Стефан (Бех). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
12. His feast day is on April 23.

References

1. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεοδοσία καὶ Γερόντιος. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 13 Απριλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
3. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δάδας, Κυντιλλιανὸς καὶ Μάξιμος οἱ Ἀναγνῶστες. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. 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. pp. 104-105.
5. April 13 / April 26. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
6. April 26 / April 13. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
7. Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
8. Hieromartyr Artemon the Presbyter of Laodicea in Syria. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
9. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐλευθέριος καὶ Ζωΐλος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. Womanmartyr Thomais of Alexandria. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
12. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαρτίνος πάπας Ρώμης. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. April 13. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
14. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Μνήμη τῶν δύο Ἐπισκόπων Ὁμολογητῶν τῶν ἐξορισθέντων σὺν τῷ Ἁγίῳ Μαρτίνῳ. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρσένιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἐλασσῶνος. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. Dr. Alexander Roman. April. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
18. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. (Russian) 13 апреля (ст.ст.) 26 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
20. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Νεομάρτυρα Γεωργίου τοῦ Κυπρίου. 13 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• April 13 / April 26. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• April 26 / April 13. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• April 13. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. April. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 28.
• April 13. 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. pp. 104–105.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 13 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 13 Απριλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 26 апреля (13 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (Russian) 13 апреля (ст.ст.) 26 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).