April 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# April 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 3

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 20.

## Saints

* Martyrs Amphianus (Apphianus) and his brother Aedesius, of Patara, Lycia (306)
* Virgin-martyr Theodora of Palestine (Theodosia of Tyre) (308) (see also: April 3)
* Martyr Polycarp of Alexandria (4th century)
* Venerable Stephen the Wonderworker, in Ascalon, Palestine (778)
* Venerable Titus the Wonderworker (9th century)
* Saint George of Atsquri, Georgia (9th-10th centuries)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Urban of Langres, sixth Bishop of Langres in France, patron-saint of vine dressers (ca. 390)
* Saint Abundius, of Greek origin, he became Bishop of Como in the north of Italy (469)
* Saint Victor of Capua, Bishop of Capua in the south of Italy and a Church writer (554)
* Saint Nicetius of Lyon (Nizier), in Gaul (573)
* Saint Brónach (Bromana), called the Virgin of Glen-Seichis, now Kilbronach in Ireland.
* Saint Musa, a child in Rome who was granted visions, mentioned by her contemporary by St Gregory the Great (6th century)
* Saints Lonochilus (Longis, Lenogisil), priest who founded a monastery in Maine in France (653), and Agnofleda, a holy virgin (638)
* Venerable Virgin-martyr Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland (870) (see also: June 22)
* Saint Constantín mac Cináeda (Constantine I), King of Scotland, slain in a battle against heathen invaders of his country and honoured as a martyr, buried at Iona (877)
* Saint Rufus, a hermit at Glendalough in Ireland.
* Saint Drogo, a monk at Fleury-sur-Loire in France and afterwards at Baume-les-Messieurs (10th century)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Sabbas, Archbishop of Sourozh, Crimea (11th century)
* Venerable Gregory, ascetic of Nicomedia (1240)

## Icon gallery

* Martyr Amphianus (Apphianus).
* 'Virgin-martyr Theodora of Palestine (Theodosia of Tyre)
* Facade of the Church of St Nicetius of Lyon, Lyon, France.
* Stained glass of St. Brónach, Rostrevor Chapel.
* The self-mutilation of Saint Æbbe the Younger and her community.
