Orthodox Calendar
April 2028
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1

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-Holy Theotokos
  • Martyrs Chrysanthos and Daria, and those with them at Rome (283)

2

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Fifth Sunday of Lent
  • St Mary of Egypt
  • Our righteous Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St Sabbas the Sanctified (633? 796?)
  • St Photine the Samaritan Woman (66)
  • St Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Bishop of Lindisfarne (687)

3

Lenten Fast

  • Our Holy Father James the Confessor, bishop, of the Studion (8th c.)
  • Our Holy Father Serapion (366)

4

Lenten Fast

  • Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra (362)
  • Martyr Drosida of Antioch, and five nuns (104)

5

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)

6

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Forefeast of Annunciation
  • Saint Zacharias the Recluse of Egypt (4th c.)
  • Commemoration of the Miracle at the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev (?)

7

Lenten Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos
  • The Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
  • New Confessor/Hieromartyr Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow (1925)

8

Lenten Fast—Wine, Oil and Caviar are Allowed

  • Lazarus Saturday
  • Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel

9

Lenten Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Palm Sunday: Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem
  • St Matrona of Thessalonica (4th c.)

10

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Monday
  • St Hilarion the New, abbot of Pelecete, Confessor (754)
  • Repose of Gerontissa Gavrilia (1992) (March 15 OC)

11

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Tuesday
  • Our Righteous Father Mark the Confessor, Bishop of Arethusa; Cyril the Deacon, and others martyred during the reign of Julian
  • Our Holy Father John the Hermit (4th c.)

12

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Great and Holy Wednesday
  • St John Klimakos (John of the Ladder) of Sinai (649)
  • Commemoration of an Uncondemning Monk

13

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Great and Holy Thursday
  • Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas
  • St Innocent, enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879)
  • Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra (326)
  • St Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow (1461)

14

Lenten Fast—Strict Fast

  • Great and Holy Friday
  • Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt (4th-6th c.)

15

Lenten Fast—Wine is Allowed

  • Great and Holy Saturday
  • Our Holy Father Titus the Wonderworker (9th c.)
  • Holy Martyrs Amphianus and Aedesius (ca. 306)

16

  • Holy Pascha
  • The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
  • Beginning of the Pentecostarion
  • Our Holy Father Nicetas the Confessor (824)
  • Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (886)
  • Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949) (March 21 OC)

17

  • Bright Monday
  • St Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (523)

18

  • Bright Tuesday
  • Holy Martyrs Agathopous and Theodoulos (303)
  • Our Holy Father Mark of Trache (ca. 400)

19

  • Bright Wednesday
  • St Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582)

20

  • Bright Thursday
  • Repose St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener N. America
  • Holy Martyr Calliopius, with his mother Theoclea (304)
  • St George the Confessor, bishop of Mitylene (ca. 820)
  • St Nilus (Nil Sorsky), abbot of Sora (1508)
  • Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1948) (March 25 OC)
  • St Justin (Popovic) of Chelije in Serbia (1979) (March 25 OC)

21

  • Bright Friday
  • The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos
  • Holy Apostles Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and Hermas
  • Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (432)

22

  • Bright Saturday
  • Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (362)

23

  • Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha
  • St Thomas Sunday
  • Martyrs Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompeius and 36 with them, beheaded at Carthage (250)
  • Six Thousand Holy Martyrs in Georgia (1615)
  • New Hieromartyr Gregory, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)

24

  • Hieromartyr Antipas, bishop of Pergamum (92), disciple of St John the Theologian
  • Holy Martyrs Processus and Martinian (1st c.)

25

  • Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa)
  • St Isaac the Syrian, abbot of Spoleto, Italy (ca. 550)
  • St Basil the Confessor, bishop of Parium (ca. 760)
  • Our Holy Mother Athanasia (860)

26

Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Hieromartyr Artemon, presbyter of Laodicea in Syria (303)
  • St Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655)

27

  • Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus of the Seventy
  • Holy Martyr Ardalion the Actor (3rd c.)

28

Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Holy Martyr Sabbas the Goth (372)

29

  • Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia in Illyria (295 or 304)

30

  • 3rd Sunday of Pascha
  • Myrrhbearing Women
  • Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, and those with him (343)