April 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# April 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 21

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 7.

## Saints

* Apostle Zacchaeus of the Seventy, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, he who was called down from the Sycamore tree by Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke (1st century)
* Martyrs Acindinus, Antoninus, Victor, Zenon, Zoticus, Theonas, Caesareus, Severian and Christophoros (284-305) (see also: April 18 - Slavic)
* Venerable Theodore Trichinas ("the Hair-Shirt Wearer"), hermit near Constantinople (400)
* Saint Theotimus, Bishop of Tomis in Moesia (Lesser Scythia) (407)
* Blessed Gregory (593) and Anastasius I (599), Patriarchs of Antioch.
* Hieromartyr Anastasius II, Patriarch of Antioch (609)
* Venerable Anastasius Sinaita, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai (c. 700) (see also: April 21)
* Venerable Ioannis the Palaiolavritis ("of the Old Lavra"), at St. Chariton's Monastery, in the Judean Desert. (see also: April 19)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Sulpicius and Servilian, martyrs in Rome who were beheaded under Trajan (c. 117)
* Saints Marcellinus of Embrun, Vincent and Domninus, born in North Africa, they went to France and preached in the Dauphiné (c. 374)
* Saint Marcian of Auxerre, a monk at the Monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Auxerre (c. 470)
* Saint Cædwalla of Wessex (Cadwalla), King of the West Saxons (689)
* Saint Gundebert (Gumbert), monk-martyr (8th century)
* Saint Harduin, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France (749), then a hermit who copied writings of the Fathers (811)
* Saint Hugh of Anzy-le-Duc, a monk at Saint Savin (c. 930)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Saints Athanasius (1380) and Ioasaph (1422) of Meteora, Abbots.
* Venerable Alexander of Oshevensk, founder of Oshevensk Monastery, Arkhangelsk (1479)
* Child-Martyr Gabriel of Zabludov (Gabriel of Slutsk) (1690)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hiero-Confessor Theodosius (Ganitsky), Bishop of Kolomna (1937)

## Other commemorations

* "Cyprus" (392) and "Keepiazh" (Kipyazha) Icons of the Mother of God.
* Translation of the relics (1991) of St. Nikolai (Velimirovich), Bishop of Ochrid and Zhicha (1956) from America to Serbia.
* Repose of Schemamonk Ignatius of St. Nicephorus Monastery in Olonets (1852)

## Icon gallery

* Zacchaeus's sycamore fig in Jericho, contained in the grounds of the Russian Museum.
* Venerable Anastasius Sinaita, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai.
* Venerable Alexander of Oshevensk, founder of Oshevensk Monastery, Arkhangelsk.
* Child-Martyr Gabriel of Zabludov (Gabriel of Slutsk).
* Saint Nikolaj Velimirović.
