# April 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 17 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 19
All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For April 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 5.

## Saints

* Martyrs Victor, Zoticus, Zeno, Acindynus, and Severian, of Nicomedia (c. 303) (see also: April 20 - Greek)
* Martyr Sabbas the Goth (Sabbas Stratelates), at Buzau in Wallachia (372) (see also: April 12 and April 15)
* Saint Acacius II, Bishop of Melitene (445) (see also: April 17)
* Saint Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon, and his fellow-ascetic St. Auxentius (815-820)
* Venerable John the Righteous (John the Hesychast), disciple of St. Gregory of Decapolis (c. 820-850)
* Venerable Naucratius, Abbot of the Studion (848)
* Venerable Athanasia the Wonderworker, Abbess, of Aegina (850) (see also: April 12 - Slavic)
* Venerable Matthew (Matthias), acquaintance of St. Athanasia the Wonderworker (c. 850)
* Venerable Euthymius the Wonderworker.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, his mother Anthia, and eleven others, martyred in Illyria under Hadrian (c. 117-138) (see also: December 15 - East)
* Martyr Corebus, a prefect of Messina in Sicily, converted to Christ by St Eleutherius and martyred under the Emperor Hadrian (c. 117-138)
* Martyr Calocerus, an officer of the Emperor Hadrian martyred in Brescia in Italy (c. 117-138)
* Saint Apollonius the Apologist, a Roman senator, denounced as a Christian by one of his own slaves and condemned to be beheaded (c. 190)
* Saints Bitheus and Genocus, two monks from Britain who accompanied St Finian of Clonard to Ireland (6th century)
* Saint Laserian (Molaisse), founder of the monastery and bishopric of Leighlin in Ireland (639)
* Saint Deicola (Dicul), born in Ireland, he preached Christ in England in Norfolk and in Sussex (late 7th century)
* Saint Agia (Aia, Aya, Austregildis, Aye), wife of St Hidulf of Hainault in Belgium, monastic at the convent of Mons (c. 714)
* Saint Wicterp (Wiho, Wicho), Abbot of Ellwangen Abbey in Germany, later became the tenth Bishop of Augsburg (749)
* Saint Cogitosus, a monk at Kildare in Ireland who probably wrote the Life of St Brigid (8th century)
* Saint Perfectus, a priest in Cordoba in Spain, martyred by Muslims on Easter Sunday (851)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Basil (Ratishvili) the Georgian, Wonderworker, of Iveron Monastery, Mt. Athos (13th century)
* Venerable Euthymius the Enlightener of Karelia (1435), and righteous laymen Anthony and Felix of Karelia.
* New Martyr John the Tailor, of Ioannina, at Constantinople (1526)
* Venerable new martyr John (Koulikas) (1564) (see also: April 8)
* Martyr Tunom, Arab Emir who confessed Christ on seeing the Holy Fire in Jerusalem (1579)
* Hieromartyr Cyril VI of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Bessarion Selinin, Priest (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Alexis Krontenkov, Priest, of Ekaterinburg (1930)
* New Hieromartyrs Nicholas (1937) and Basil Derzhavin (1930), Priests, and martyred lay people of the city of Gorodets, Nizhni-Novgorod.
* New Martyr Tamara (Satsi), Abbess, of Cheboksara (Chuvashia) (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Glykophilousa" ("Sweet-kissing"). (see also: March 27)
* Icon of the Mother of God of St Maximus (Maximovsk Icon) (1299)

## Icon gallery

* Saint Apollonius of Rome, drawn by Jacques Callot, ca. 1630.
* St. Cyril VI, Patriarch of Constantinople.
* St. Cyril VI, Patriarch of Constantinople.
* An icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Glykophilousa" ("Sweet-kissing").