Orthodox Calendar 2000 |
April 2000 |
29th of April in
Old Style
12th of May in
New Style
Friday
Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus: Theognes, Rufus, Anripater, Theostichus, Arcemas, Magnus, Theodorus, Thaumasius, and Philemon (286-299). St. Memnon the Wonderworker. Martyrs Diodorus and Rhodoplanus, deacon, at Aphrodisia in Anacolia (284-305). St. Secundellas the Deacon, in Gaul. St. Basil, bishop of Ostrog in Montenegro (16th cen.). St. Nektary of Optina. (Gr. Cal.: Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy Apostles. Cercyra, martyr. John, metropolitan of Thebes, the new merciful one.).