April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 12 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 14

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 26 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For April 13, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 31.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors
  • New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk (1933)[7][19][note 12]
  • Virgin-martyr Martha Testova (1941)[7][20]

Other commemorations
  • Saint Martin the Confessor (Menologion of Basil II)
    Saint Martin the Confessor (Menologion of Basil II)
  • Saint Hermenegild (Francisco Herrera, 1684)
    Saint Hermenegild (Francisco Herrera, 1684)
  • Reliquary of St. Arsenios of Elassonna, in the Theotokos-Nativity Cathedral of the Kremlin.
    Reliquary of St. Arsenios of Elassonna, in the Theotokos-Nativity Cathedral of the Kremlin.
  • Venerable Herman, Archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery.
    Venerable Herman, Archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery.
  • Sister Anastasia, formerly Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna
    Sister Anastasia, formerly Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna
  • New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk.
    New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), Bishop of Izhevsk.

Notes
  1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. Their memory is not recorded in the Synaxaristes. We know about the saints from the Lavriotiko Codex I 70, where they are both referenced.
  3. "The same day, the martyrdom of the Saints Maximus, Quinctillian, and Dadas, during the persecution of Diocletian.".[5]
    See also August 2 for the Translation of their Relics.
  4. Born in Umbria, he was elected Pope of Rome in 649. He called a Council at once and condemned Monothelitism. Imperial wrath fell on him and in 653 he was deported to Naxos in the Aegean. The following year he was condemned to death at a mock trial and finally taken as a prisoner to the Chersonese where he died of starvation.
  5. Born in a noble family in Sicily, he converted and fled from his father's wrath to Ravenna in Italy, where he became bishop in 378. He built the original basilica to the Resurrection of Our Lord (called Anastasis in the Byzantine period)
  6. Born in Auvergne in France, he lived an ascetic life on a mountainside and later built a monastery for his disciples.
  7. Son of the Visigothic King of Spain, Leovigild, he was brought up as an Arian in Seville. He became Orthodox on his marriage to the daughter of Sigebert of Austrasia, at which his father disinherited him. Hermenegild rose up in arms, was defeated, captured and refusing to give up his Faith, was martyred at the instigation of his stepmother.
  8. "At Seville, in Spain, St. Hermenegild, son of Leovigild, Arian king of the Visigoths, who was incarcerated for the confession of the Catholic faith. By order of his wicked father he was beheaded because he had refused to receive communion from an Arian bishop, on the Paschal solemnity, and thus exchanging an earthly for a heavenly kingdom, he entered the abode of the blessed, both as a king and as a martyr."[5]
  9. See: (in Russian) Арсений Элассонский. Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
  10. See: (in Russian) Герман (Клица). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
  11. See: (in Russian) Покровский монастырь (Киев). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
  12. See: (in Russian) Стефан (Бех). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
  13. His feast day is on April 23.

References
  1. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεοδοσία καὶ Γερόντιος. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  2. (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 13 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).
  3. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δάδας, Κυντιλλιανὸς καὶ Μάξιμος οἱ Ἀναγνῶστες. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  4. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. Maximus, Quintilian, and Dadas, MM. (A.D. 287.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 181-183.
  5. 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. 104-105.
  6. April 13 / April 26. Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).
  7. April 26 / April 13. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  8. Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  9. Hieromartyr Artemon the Presbyter of Laodicea in Syria. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  10. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐλευθέριος καὶ Ζωΐλος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  11. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  12. Womanmartyr Thomais of Alexandria. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  13. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαρτίνος πάπας Ρώμης. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  14. April 13. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  15. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Μνήμη τῶν δύο Ἐπισκόπων Ὁμολογητῶν τῶν ἐξορισθέντων σὺν τῷ Ἁγίῳ Μαρτίνῳ. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  16. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  17. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Hermenigild, K.M. (A.D. 586.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 183-184.
  18. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρσένιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἐλασσῶνος. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  19. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
  20. (in Russian) 13 апреля (ст.ст.) 26 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.) Archived 2014-03-26 at the Wayback Machine. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.
  21. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Νεομάρτυρα Γεωργίου τοῦ Κυπρίου. 13 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.

Sources
  • April 13 / April 26. Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).
  • April 26 / April 13. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • April 13. 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. 28.
  • April 13. 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. 104–105.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources

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