April 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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April 10 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 12
All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 24 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For April 11th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 29.
Saints
- Martyrs Processus and Martinian of Rome (c. 67)[1][2][3]
- Hieromartyr Antipas of Pergamum, Bishop of Pergamon, disciple of St. John the Theologian (92)[1][4][5][6][note 2][note 3]
- Hieromartyr Domninus (Domnion), Bishop of Salona in Dalmatia, and eight soldiers with him (c. 100)[1][7][9][note 4]
- Saint Philip of Gortyna, Bishop of Gortyna on Crete (180)[1][9][note 5]
- Venerable Pharmuthius the Recluse, Anchorite of Egypt (4th century)[1][8][11][12]
- Venerable-Martyr Bacchus, of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified (8th century)[13]
- Venerable John, disciple of Venerable Gregory of Decapolis (820)[1][9][14]
- Venerable Tryfaini and Matrona of Cyzicus.[8][15]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Machai, a disciple of St Patrick who founded a monastery on the Isle of Bute in Scotland (5th century)[10]
- Saint Isaac of Spoleto (Isaac of Monteluco), a Syrian monk who fled the Monophysite persecution and founded a monastery in Monteluco near Spoleto (c. 550)[7][10][note 6]
- Saint Maedhog (Aedhan, Mogue), an abbot whose main monastery was Clonmore in Ireland (6th century)[10][16]
- Saint Guthlac of Crowland, hermit of Crowland, England (714)[1][9][10][17][18][note 7] (see also: August 30)
- Saint Agericus (Aguy, Airy), Abbot of St Martin's in Tours (680)[10]
- Saint Godebertha, a nun at Noyon and the first abbess of the convent founded there (c. 700)[10][19]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint George, founder of the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos, north of Koutsovendis, in Cyprus (c. 1070)[8][20]
- Venerable James, Abbot of Zhelezny Borok, Kostroma (1442),[21][22][note 8] and his fellow ascetic St. James of Bryleevsk (15th century)[1][23][note 9]
- Venerable Euthymius (1456) and Chariton (1509), Abbots of Syanzhema, Vologda.[1][9][25]
- Saint Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver (1576)[1][26][27][note 10][note 11]
- Saint Callinicus of Cernica (Kallinikos), Bishop of Rimnic in Romania (1868)[1][9][28][29][note 12][note 13][note 14]
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
Icon gallery
Martyrdom of St. Antipas of Pergamum.
Stained glass panel depicting Guthlac of Crowland, in Crowland Abbey.
Venerable James, Abbot of Zhelezny Borok, Kostroma
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Notes
- 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"). - He was one of the restorers of ascetic life in 6th century Italy.
- From being a warrior in the army of Ethelred, King of Mercia, Guthlac became a monk at Repton in England. Afterwards he went to live as a hermit in the fens, where he spent the last fifteen years of his life like a desert-father. Later the monastery of Crowland grew up at the place where he had lived.
- See: (in Russian) Ðаков ÐелезнобоÑовÑкий. Ðикипедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- "The Monk Jakov of Bryleevsk was a disciple of the Monk Jakov of Zheleznoborovsk (Comm. 11 April) and was a "trudnik" at his monastery (the word "trudnik" has two meanings: "truzhenik"-"toiler" and "posluzhnik"-"obedient"). He later founded the Bryleevsk wilderness-monastery in honour of the Entry into the Temple of the MostHoly Mother of God at a distance of 5 versts from the Zheleznoborovsk ForeRunner monastery, off in the direction of the city of Bua. The Monk Jakov died during the 15th century and was buried in the Entry into the Temple church. His memory is marked likewise on the Day of the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles (i.e. Pentecost)."[24]
- The translation of his relics took place on 20/6/1630.
- See: (in Russian) ÐаÑÑоноÑий II (епиÑкоп ТвеÑÑкой). Ðикипедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- He was the abbot of the Cernica Monastery near Bucharest, which became the center of printing and social activities in Wallachia. He was distinguished by humility and ascetic virtues. He was consecrated as bishop of Râmnic in 1850 and engaged in church-building and publishing, and opened a seminary. Shortly before his death he retired to the monastery he had founded.[30]
- "He was a devoted disciple of St Paisius Velichkovsky, and brought the spirituality and veneration of St Paisius to Romania."[31]
- See also: (in Romanian) Sfântul Calinic de la Cernica. Wikipedia. (Romanian Wikipedia).