April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &nd ...

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April 6 Events Pre–1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus. * 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. * ...

All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''April 18'' by

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. For April 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''

March 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. * 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the las ...

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Saints

* ''Martyrs Claudius, Diodorus, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Serapion and Nicephorus, at Corinth'' (251 or 258) Συναξαριστής.
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'' ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ). * Martyrs Theodulus, Reader, and Agathopodes, Deacon, and those with them, at

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

(c. 303)April 5 / April 18
Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).April 18 / April 5
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). (''see also:

- Greek'') * Martyrs Zenon, by fire, Maximus, Terentius and Pompeius, by the sword (250) ''(see also:

October 28 Events Pre-1600 * 97 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. * 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor. * 312 – Constantine I defeat ...

March 13 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Mu ...

April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 140 ...

)'' * Martyr Thermos (''Fermus, Firmus''), by fire. * The Holy Noble Lady (''sister of martyr Thermos/Fermus''), and her Servant, martyrs, by the sword. * Holy Five Young Virgin-Martyrs of

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, by the sword. * '' Virgin-martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, of Alexandria'' (304) (''see also:

May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &nda ...

'') * Venerable Martyr Ypomoni (''Hypomoni, Evpomoni''). * Venerable Publius of Egypt, monk (4th century) (''see also:

- Greek'') * Saints Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus, of Egypt (4th century) (''see also:

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(813) (''see also:

- Greek'') * ''Venerable''

Theodora of Thessaloniki Theodora of Thessalonica (Greek language, Greek: Θεοδώρα Θεσσαλονίκης; 812–892) was a Byzantine nun and saint from Aegina. Her hagiography is the longest ever written about a holy woman in Byzantine history. The Eastern Orthod ...

(886)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Holy Martyrs of North-West Africa, a large group martyred at the Easter liturgy by

Genseric Gaiseric ( – 25 January 477), also known as Geiseric or Genseric (; reconstructed Vandalic: ) was king of the Vandals and Alans from 428 to 477. He ruled over a kingdom and played a key role in the decline of the Western Roman Empire during ...

, the Arian King of the Vandals (459)April 5
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint

Bécán Saint Bécán (or Began, Beggan, Becain; 5th–6th century) was an Irish monk who founded a monastery at Kilbeggan and is considered by some to be one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. His feast day is 5 April. Monks of Ramsgate account The monk ...

(''Began''), one of the '

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' (6th century) * Venerable Derfel-Gadarn, a soldier and afterwards a hermit in Llanderfel in Gwynedd in Wales (6th century) (''see also:

- Greek'') * Saint

Æthelburh of Kent Æthelburh of Kent (born c. 601, sometimes spelled ''Æthelburg'', ''Ethelburga, Æthelburga''; , also known as ''Tate or Tata),'' Stowe 944: ' was an early Anglo-Saxon queen consort of Northumbria, the second wife of King Edwin. As she was a C ...

(c. 647)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. pp. 144-145.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Argyre the Neomartyr of Prussa (1721) * New Martyr George of New Ephesus (1801) * New Martyr Panagiotes of Jerusalem (1820)

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Alexis Krotenkov, Priest (1930) * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Simo, Archpriest, of Kronstadt (1931)

Other commemorations

* '' Translation of the relics (1652) of St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow (1607)''
Translation of the relics of St Job the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints. * ''Martyrdom of the Optina monastics (Optina martyrs) on Pascha'' (1993): :* ''Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov); with Riassaphore-monks Therapontus (Pushkarev), and Trophimus (Tatarinov).'' * Repose of Righteous Symeon Klimych (1837) * Repose of Elder Philemon of

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and Jordanville (1953)

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References

Sources

April 5 / April 18
Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).
April 18 / April 5
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
April 5
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). p. 26.

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. 96–97. * 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. pp. 144–145. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
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Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ. * Συναξαριστής.
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'' ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ). Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *
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. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. {{DEFAULTSORT:April 5 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) April in the Eastern Orthodox calendar