April 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# April 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Apr. 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Apr. 25

All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 7 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 11.

## Saints

* Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him (272)
* Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine, and Julius, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297)
* Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and four others, at Nicomedia (c. 303)
* Martyr Eutexios.
* Saint Innocent, priest, on the Mount of Olives (4th century)
* Venerable Thomas, Fool-for-Christ, of Syria (c. 550)
* Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker, of Constantinople (6th-8th centuries)
* Venerable Thaumastos (the Wonderworker) (6th century)
* Saint Xenophon, founder of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos (c. 1018)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Alexander of Lyons, and companions (c. 177)
* Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212) (see also: April 23)
* Saint Gregory of Elvira, Bishop of Elvira in the south of Spain (c. 394)
* Saint Dyfnan, born in Wales, he founded a church in Anglesey (5th century)
* Saint Deodatus of Blois (Dié), a hermit near Blois in France, later the town of Saint-Dié grew up around his cell (c. 525)
* Saint Honorius of Brescia, a hermit near Brescia in Italy who was chosen bishop of that city (c. 586)
* Saint Mellitus, the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England (624)
* Saint Authaire (Oye) (7th century)
* Saints Bova and Doda (7th century)
* Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of York (709)
* Saint Egbert, Bishop, of Iona (729)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Saints Sabbas and Alexis the Hermit, of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
* New Martyr Doukas of Mytilene, the tailor (1564)
* Saints Symeon (Stefan) (1656), Elias (Iorest) (1678) and Sava (Brancovici) (1683), Metropolitans of Ardeal, Transylvania, Confessors against the Calvinists.
* Venerable Joseph (Stoyka) the Confessor, Bishop of Maramureș, Romania (c. 1711)
* New Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia (1776 or 1795)
* Saint Alexis Toth, priest, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909) (see also: May 7)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Martyr Sergius Archangelskiy (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Branko Dobrosavljević, Serbian Orthodox priest who fell victim to Ustaše (1941)

## Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the consecration of the Church of St George in Constantinople.
* Uncovering of the relics of Saint Ivo of Ramsey (1001)
* Synaxis of the "Molchenskaya" Icon of the Mother of God (1405)
* Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam Monastery (1947)

## Icon gallery

* Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome.
* Triptych with St. Honorius of Brescia (center).
* St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York.
* St. Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre.
