Commemorated today
- Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus and CompanionsMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Six Thousand Holy Martyrs in Georgia (1615)Martyr · d. 1615
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The title places them at Georgia. The year given is 1615.
They are kept together rather than separately, and for most of them the number, the place and the manner of death are the whole of what is recorded.
- New Hieromartyr Gregory, Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 1821
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Constantinople. The year given is 1821.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- 150 and more Righteous Martyr Fathers of the Sacred Monastery of Pantocrator Daou PentelisMartyr · A synaxis — several kept together
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
Kept in the Greek tradition.
What is kept is the council and what it settled, rather than the life of any one of the fathers who sat at it.
- Miltiades, Pope of RomeHierarch
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Rome. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on April 10 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on April 23 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.