April 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# April 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 24

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed on April 10.

## Saints

* Martyrs Donatus and Therinus of Bothrotus, in Epirus (c. 250)
* Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George (303)
* Martyr Polychronia, mother of Great-martyr Saint George, a Greek native of Lydda (Diospolis) (303)
* Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of St. George; and martyrs Glycerius and Athanasius the Magician, at Nicomedia (303)
* Martyr Valerius, by the sword.
* Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian (303) (see also: April 21)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212) (see also: April 24)
* Saint Marolus, a Syrian by origin, he became Bishop of Milan in Italy in 408 (423)
* Saint Ibar of Beggerin (Iberius, Ivor), an enlightener in Ireland, who mainly preached in Leinster and Meath (5th century)
* Saint Pusinna, a holy virgin in Champagne in France who had six sisters, all widely honoured as saints (5th-6th centuries)
* Saint Gerard of Toul, Bishop of Toul in France (994)
* Saint Adalbert of Prague (Voitech), Bishop of Prague (997)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Blessed George of Shenkursk, Fool-for-Christ (1462)
* New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Ptolemais (1752)
* King Solomon I of Imeretia, Georgia (1784)
* New Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria, who suffered at Pergamus (1802)
* Blessed Sophia of Kleisoura (Myrtidiotissa in Schema), the ascetic of Kleisoura, Fool-for-Christ (1974) (see also: May 6 - ns)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Priest Igor (George) of Spas Chekriak village, Russia (1918)
* New Hieromartyr John Anserov, Priest of Alma-Ata (1940)
* New Hieromartyr Sergius Zacharczuk, priest, of Nabroz, Chełm and Podlasie, Poland (1943)

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhny Novgorod (1963)

## Icon gallery

* Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George.
* Altar with sarcophagus containing the relics of Saint Venerius, Marolus, Glycerius, Lazarus, Bishops of Milan.
* Saint Ibar of Beggerin
* Tomb of Saint Gerard of Toul in the cathedral of Toul.
* Saint Adalbert of Prague (15th century)
* Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhni-Novgorod.
