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)