Repose St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener N. America
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Holy Martyr Calliopius, with his mother Theoclea (304)Martyr · d. 304
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 year given is 304.
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.
- St Justin (Popovic) of Chelije in Serbia (1979) (March 25 OC)d. 1979
What is known
The title places them at Chelije. The year given is 1979.
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.
- St George the Confessor, bishop of Mitylene (c. 820)Confessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed · d. c. 820
What is known
A confessor suffered for the faith and lived: imprisoned, exiled, tortured, stripped of office. The Church honours the witness without requiring the death.
The title places them at Mitylene. The year given is about 820.
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.
- St Nilus (Nil Sorsky), abbot of Sora (1508)Monastic · d. 1508
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The title places them at Sora. The year given is 1508.
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.
- Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1948) (March 25 OC)d. 1948
What is known
The title places them at Kalymnos. The year given is 1948.
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.
- Gerasimos the God-Bearer of Byzantium
What is known
The title places them at Byzantium. 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.
Appointed readings
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3 continues in 6
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:1–9
- Hebrews 7:26–8:2 continues in 8
- John 10:9–16
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on April 7 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on April 20 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.