April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 23 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For April 10th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 28.

Saints

• Prophetess Huldah (Olda) (IV Kings 22:14)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others, including Zeno, Alexander, and Theodore, at Carthage (250)^{[1][3][4][note 2][note 3]}
• Saint Miltiades, Pope of Rome (314)^{[1][6][note 4]}
• Hieromartyrs James the Presbyter, and the Deacons Azadanes and Abdicius, of Persia (ca. 380)^[1][7][8]

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Martyrs of Rome (ca. 115)^{[5][note 5][note 6]}
• Saint Palladius, Abbot of St Germanus in Auxerre, he became bishop there and founded several monasteries (661)^[5]
• Martyrs Beocca, Ethor and others, at Chertsey Abbey, by the Danes (869)^{[5][10][11][note 7]}
• Saint Bede the Younger, a court official who became a monk at the monastery of Gavello near Rovigo (883)^[5]
• Saint Macarius of Antioch (1012)^{[5][9][note 8]}

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• The Holy Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi Monastery (Georgia), who suffered during the invasion of Tamerlane (1386)^[1][12][13]
• Nun-martyr Anastasia, Abbess, and 34 nuns with her, of Uglich (1609)^[1][14]
• Venerable martyrs of the Daou Penteli Monastery, in Penteli, by Algerian pirate raiders, (end-17th century)^{[15][note 9]}
• New Martyr Demos (Demetrios) of Smyrna (1763)^{[1][17][18][note 10]}
• New Hieromartyr Gregory V, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)^{[1][18][19][20][21][note 11]}
• New Monk-martyr Chrysanthus of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos (1821)^[1][22]

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New Hieromartyr Flegont Pongilsky, Priest (1938)^[10][20]
• Martyr Demetrius Vdovin (1942)^[10][20]

Other Commemorations

• Consecration of Ioasaph (Bolotov) as Bishop of Kodiak, Alaska (1799)^[1]

Icon Gallery

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  Icon of Saint Miltiades, Pope of Rome.

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  Hanging of Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople.

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. Terence, Africanus, Pompeius and Companions: A group of fifty martyrs, imprisoned with snakes and scorpions and finally beheaded in Carthage in North Africa under Decius.^[5]
3. (Greek) Εορταζόμενο όνομα (Name Days):

   • Ἀναξιμένης, Δημοσθένης, Ἐπαμεινώνδας, Ἐτεοκλής, Ἠρακλῆς, Θησέας, Ἰσοκράτης, Μακάριος, Ὅμηρος, Παρμενίων, Πελοπίδας, Περικλῆς, Πολύβιος, Πολύνικος, Προμηθέας, Σοφοκλῆς, Φιλοποίμην, Φωκίων.

4. (Greek) Εορταζόμενο όνομα (Name Day): Μιλτιάδης (Miltiades).
5. A number of criminals baptised by Pope Alexander during his imprisonment. They were taken to Ostia near Rome and put on board a boat which was then scuttled.
6. "At Rome, the birthday of many holy martyrs, whom pope St. Alexander baptized whilst he was detained in prison. The prefect Aurelian had them all put in an old ship, taken to the deep sea, and plunged into it with stones tied to their necks."^[9]
7. In their onslaught on England, the Danes attacked monasteries in particular. They martyred Sts Beocca, Abbot, Ethor, monk-priest and some ninety monks at Chertsey in Surrey; at Peterborough they martyred St Hedda, Abbot, and others at his monastery; at Thorney, St Torthred and others.^[5]
8. Born in Antioch, he was a bishop who travelled westwards as a pilgrim and was received by monks at the monastery of St Bavo in Ghent in Belgium.
9. The Monastery lies on the eastern slope of Penteli, on the road to Rafina-Pikermi, near a ravine. It is a monastic complex consisting of the katholikon, the cells, the Refectory, a fountain and a Byzantine defense tower in the entrance gate. The Monastery was destroyed in the end of the 17th century by Algerian pirates’ raids, who slaughtered the monks, whose heads and relics are displayed in a building of the monastic complex.^[16] See also: (Greek) Νταού Πεντέλης Αττικής. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
10. (Greek) Εορταζόμενο όνομα (Name Day): Δῆμος (Demos).
11. The holy patriarch-martyr was hanged over the door to the Phanarion and later his body was thrown into the Bosphoros. Ukrainian sailors retrieved his body, thinking him to have been a priest martyred by the Turks. At Odessa, he was positively identified as the patriarch and enshrined there until his glorification as a sainted hieromartyr and return to Athens where he is now enshrined. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has placed his name in its own calendar, especially owing to his great veneration by Ukrainians.^[21] The translation of his relics took place on 25/4/1871.

References

1. April 10 / April 23. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
2. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Ὄλδα ἡ Προφήτης. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
3. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀφρικανός, Θεόδωρος, Μάξιμος, Πομπήιος καὶ Τερέντιος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς τριάντα ἐννέα Μάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
5. April 10. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
6. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Μιλτιάδης πάπας Ρώμης. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἀζᾶς οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. Martyr James the Presbyter of Persia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
9. 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. p. 101.
10. April 23 / April 10. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
11. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 151.
12. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν Καμπτακούιᾳ τῆς Γεωργίας Μάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. Martyrs of the Kvabtakhevi Monastery. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
14. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ἡ Ὁσία Ἀναστασία ἡγουμένη τοῦ Οὔγκλιχ. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν τῇ μονῇ Νταοὺ Πεντέλης οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. Daou, Monastery, Penteli (Raphina). Byzantine Monuments of Attica. Retrieved: 02 February, 2014.
17. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος (ἢ Δῆμος) ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ ἁλιεὺς. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 10 Απριλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
19. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ε’ Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. (Russian) 10 апреля (ст.ст.) 23 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
21. Dr. Alexander Roman. April. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
22. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Χρύσανθος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ξενοφωντινός. 10 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• April 10 / April 23. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• April 23 / April 10. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• April 10. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. April. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). pp. 27-28.
• April 10. 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. p. 101.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 151.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 10 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 10 Απριλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 23 апреля (10 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (Russian) 10 апреля (ст.ст.) 23 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).