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April 8
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Thursday |
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April 21
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Passion Week.
Great Lent. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes, and those who suffered with them (1st c.).
Martyr Pausilipus of Thrace (ca. 117-138). St. Celestine, pope of Rome (432). St. Niphont, bishop of Novgorod (1156). St. Rufus the Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).
New Hieromartyr Sergius Rodakovsky, archpriest, of Tal (Belorussia) (1933).
Spanish Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (792).
Monk-martyrs Josiah and Joseph, of Mt. Kharasam, Persia (ca. 341). St. Philaret of Seminara, Calabria (ca. 1070). New Martyr John (Koulikas) (1564). New Martyr John Naukliros (“the Navigator”), on Kos (1699).
Repose of Helen Voronova, disciple of Elder Barsanuphius of Optina (1916).
Articles
 Apostle Rodion of the SeventySaint Rodion, or Herodion (April 8), was a kinsman of the Apostle Paul (Romans 16:11), and left the bishop’s throne at Patras to go to Rome with the Apostle Peter. |
 Apostle Hermas of the SeventyThe Holy Apostle Hermas was a bishop in Philippopolis, Thrace. |
 Martyr Pausilippus of Heraclea in ThraceThe Holy Martyr Pausilippus suffered under the emperor Hadrian (117-138). |
 St. Celestine the Pope of RomeSaint Celestine, Pope of Rome, a zealous champion of Orthodoxy, lived during the reign of the holy Emperor Theodosius the Younger. |
 Venerable Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Far CavesSaint Rufus the Obedient, Hermit of the Caves, lived at the Kiev Caves monastery during the fourteenth century. |