April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) explained

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 23 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 10th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 28.

Saints

• Prophetess Huldah (Olda) (IV Kings 22:14)^{[1] [2]}
• Martyrs Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others, including Zeno, Alexander, and Theodore, at Carthage (250)^{[1] [3] [4]} (see also: October 28, March 13, April 5)
• Saint Miltiades, Pope of Rome (314)^{[1] [5]}
• Hieromartyrs James the Presbyter, and the Deacons Azadanes and Abdicius, of Persia (c. 380)^{[1] [6] [7]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs of Rome (c. 115)
• Saint Palladius, Abbot of St Germanus in Auxerre, he became bishop there and founded several monasteries (661)
• Martyrs Beocca, Ethor and others, at Chertsey Abbey, by the Danes (869)^{[8] [9]}
• Saint Bede the Younger, a court official who became a monk at the monastery of Gavello near Rovigo (883)^[10]
• Saint Macarius of Antioch (1012)^[11]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• The Holy Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi Monastery, Georgia, who suffered during the invasion of Tamerlane (1386)^{[1] [12] [13]}
• Nun-martyr Anastasia, Abbess, and 34 nuns with her, of Uglich (1609)^{[1] [14]}
• Venerable martyrs of the Daou Penteli Monastery, in Penteli, by Algerian pirate raiders, (end-17th century)^[15]
• New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Acre, Palestine (1753)^[1]
• New Martyr Demos (Demetrios) of Smyrna (1763)^{[1] [16] [17]}
• New Hieromartyr Gregory V, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1821)^{[1] [17] [18] [19]}
• Seven Hieromartyr Bishops, arrested together with Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V, subsequently martyred by the Ottoman Turks at the start of the Greek War of Independence (1821):^{[20] [21]}

• Eugenios of Anchialos.

• Iosif of Thessaloniki. (see also: June 3)

• Gregorios of Derkoi. (see also: June 3)

• Dionysios of Ephesus.

• Dorotheos of Andrianople. (see also: June 3)

• Athanasios of Nicomedia.

• Ioannichios of Tarnovo.
• New Monk-martyr Chrysanthus of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos, on Pascha (1821)^{[1] [22]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Flegont Pongilsky, Archpriest, of Yaroslavl (1938)^{[1] [8] [19]}
• Martyr Demetrius Vdovin (1942)^{[8] [19]}

Other commemorations

• Consecration of Ioasaph (Bolotov) as Bishop of Kodiak, Alaska (1799)^[1]

Sources

• April 10 / April 23. Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).
• April 23 / April 10. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• April 10. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas. St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). pp. 27–28.
• April 10. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 101.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 151.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 10 Απριλιου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
• Συναξαριστής. 10 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).

Russian Sources

• 23 апреля (10 апреля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 10 апреля (ст.ст.) 23 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.

Notes and References

1. https://orthochristian.com/calendar/20200410.html April 10 / April 23
2. Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Ὄλδα ἡ Προφήτης. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
3. Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀφρικανός, Θεόδωρος, Μάξιμος, Πομπήιος καὶ Τερέντιος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς τριάντα ἐννέα Μάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
4. Martyr Terence and 40 others beheaded at Carthage. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
5. Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μιλτιάδης πάπας Ρώμης. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
6. Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἀζᾶς οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
7. Martyr James the Presbyter of Persia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
8. http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2012&today=23&month=4&trp=0&tzo=-4 April 23 / April 10
9. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 151.
10. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Bede the Younger, MK. (A.D. 883.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 132-133.
11. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Macarius of Antioch, B. (A.D. 1012.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fourth: April. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 133-135.
12. Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν Καμπτακούιᾳ τῆς Γεωργίας Μάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
13. Martyrs of the Kvabtakhevi Monastery. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
14. Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ὁσία Ἀναστασία ἡγουμένη τοῦ Οὔγκλιχ. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
15. Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι ἐν τῇ μονῇ Νταοὺ Πεντέλης οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
16. Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος (ἢ Δῆμος) ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ ἁλιεὺς. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
17. Συναξαριστής. 10 Απριλίου. ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).
18. Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ε’ Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
19. 10 апреля (ст.ст.) 23 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей.
20. Δελτία Τύπου της Ιεράς Συνόδου: Δεύτερη συνεδρία της Δ.Ι.Σ. για το μήνα Ιούλιο. Διαρκούς Ιεράς Συνόδου της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος (ecclesia.gr). Αθήνα, 15 Ιουλίου 2021.
21. Greek CHurch Canonizes Dozens of Martyrs, Ecclesiastical Teachers. Orthodox Christianity. Athens, July 16, 2021. Retrieved: July 17, 2021.
22. Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Χρύσανθος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ξενοφωντινός. 10 Απριλίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.