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April 6
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April 19
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5th Week of Great Lent.
Tone 4.
Great Lent. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582).
Hieromartyr Archilias, priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of Rome (3rd c.). St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (308). 120 Martyrs of Persia (344-347). St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, archbishop of Moravia and enlightener of the Slavs (885).
New Hiero-confessor Sebastian (Fomin), archimandrite, of Optina and Karaganda (1966).
St. Gregory (Drimys) of the Great Lavra on Mt. Athos (1326), instructor of St. Gregory Palamas. St. Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (1346). New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon, of Mytilene (1463). New Hieromartyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1818). New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace, at Makri in Thrace (1835). St. Martyrius, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1865).
Repose of Hieromonk Arsenius of Valaam (1853), Elder Mardarius of the Nizhni-Novgorod Caves Monastery (1859), and Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin) of Rakitin (1982).
Articles
 St. Eutychius the Patriarch of ConstantinopleSaint Eutychius, Archbishop of Constantinople, was born in a village called “Divine” in the province of Phrygia. |
 Hieromartyr Archilias, priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of RomeThe Holy Martyrs Jeremiah and the Priest Archilias (Alchimius) suffered martyrdom in the third century. |
 St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis, SyriaSaint Platonida was at first a deaconess, but afterwards withdrew into the Nisibis desert, where she organized a women’s monastery. |
 120 Martyrs of PersiaThe Holy 120 Martyrs suffered under the Persian emperor Sapor. |
 Sts. Cyril and Methodius |