April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 8

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 20 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 7th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 25.

Saints

 * Saint Hegesippus the Chronicler, of Palestine (c. 180)
 * Hieromartyr Rufinus the Deacon, the Martyr Aquilina, and 200 soldiers with them, at Sinope (c. 249-251)
 * Martyr Calliopios, at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304)
 * Saint Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (5th century)  (see also: March 21 and May 14)
 * Saint George, Patriarch of Jerusalem (807)
 * Saint George the Confessor (George the Standard-Bearer), Bishop of Mytilene, exiled to Kherson (820)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Saturninus, Bishop of Verona and Confessor (4th century)
 * Hieromartyr Epiphanius, Bishop in North Africa, with Rufinus the Deacon, Donatus, and Companions – thirteen martyrs.
 * Venerable Brynach of Wales (Brenach, Bemach, Bemacus) (6th century)
 * Saint Finan (Finnian) (6th century)
 * Saint Goran (Guron, Goronus, Woranus), who lived at Bodmin before St Petroc (6th century)
 * Saints Llewellyn (LLywelyn) and Gwrnerth, monks from Wales who lived in Welshpool and later on Bardsey (6th century)
 * Saint Gibardus, Abbot of Luxeuil in France during the invasion of the Huns (ca. 888)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)
 * Venerable Nilus of Sora, founder of Sora Skete, Belozersk (1508)  (see also: May 7)
 * Venerable Daniel of Pereyaslavl, founder of St. Daniel Monastery (1540)
 * Saint Peter Kononovich-Sahaydachny (1622)
 * Venerable Gerasimus the Byzantine, Hieromonk, of Patmos (1770)
 * Saint Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk (1862)
 * Venerable Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind, of Valaam Monastery (1905)
 * Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947) (see also: March 25 - os; also the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent)
 * Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia and Confessor of Traditional Orthodoxy (1979)   (Due to OS Annunciation moved to: June 1)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Arcadius Dobronravov, Archpriest, of Tsivilsk, Chuvashia (1933)
 * Martyr Eudocia Pavlovoy (1939)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God "of Byzantium" (The Byzantine Icon) (732)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1517) of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516)
 * Repose of Schemamonk Theodore of Svir (1822)
 * Repose of Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind, of Valaam (1905)