April 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
— Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar — April 7
All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For April 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 24.Saints
- Hieromartyr Archilias, Priest, and Martyr Jeremiah, of Rome
- Venerable Platonis of Nisibis, reposed in peace
- Martyr Platonis and two martyrs buried up to their loins, at Ascalon in Palestine.
- Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary
- 120 Martyrs of Persia
- Martyrs Timothy and Diogenes, in Macedonia, by Arians
- Saint Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius of Moravia, Archbishop of Moravia and Enlightener of the Slavs
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Florentius, Geminianus and Saturus, martyrs in Sirmium in Pannonia
- Saints Rufina, Moderata, Romana, Secundus and Seven Companions, martyred at Sirmium in Pannonia
- Saint Marcellinus of Carthage, imperial representative in North Africa, martyred by the Donatists
- Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome
- Saint Brychan, a King in Wales with twenty-four saintly children
- Saint Ulched, a holy man who gave his name to Llechulched in Anglesey in Wales.
- Saint Winebald, a monk at Saint-Loup-de-Troyes in France where he became abbot
- Saint Derfel the Prince, son of King Joel II, became a hermit in Llandderfel in Gwynedd in Wales
- Saint Gennard, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France and eventually Abbot of Flay
- Saint Berthanc, a monk at Iona in Scotland and later Bishop of Kirkwall in the Orkneys
- Saint Prudentius of Troyes
- Saint Notker the Stammerer, nicknamed Balbulus, monk at St Gall Abbey where he spent his whole life, excelling as a musician
- Saint Urban, Abbot of the Monastery of Peñalba near Astorga in Spain
- Saint Ælfstan, monk who became Bishop of Ramsbury and succeeded St Ethelwold as Abbot of Abingdon
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Gregory of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos , instructor of St. Gregory Palamas.
- Venerable Gregory of Sinai
- Venerable Rufus the Obedient, of the Kiev Far Caves
- New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon, of Mytilene
- Saint Aphonios, Bishop of Novgorod from 1635-1649
- New Martyr Paul the Russian, at Constantinople
- New Hieromartyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople
- New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace, at Makri in Thrace
- Saint Martyrius, monk of Glinsk Hermitage
- Martyrs Peter Zhukov and Prohor Mikhailov
- New Hieromartyr John Boikov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Jacob Boikov, Priest
- New Hiero-confessor Sebastian, Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery and Karaganda
Other commemorations
- Repose of Hieromonk Arsenius of Valaam Monastery
- Repose of Elder Mardarius of the Nizhni-Novgorod Caves Monastery
- Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim of Rakitin
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