April 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 9

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For April 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 26.

Saints

 * Holy Apostles of the Seventy:
 * Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus of Hyrcania, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes, and those who suffered with them (1st century)


 * Martyr Pausilipus of Heraclea in Thrace (ca. 117-138)
 * Monk-martyrs Josiah and Joseph, of Mt. Kharasam, Persia (c. 341)
 * Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (432)    (see also: April 6 - West)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martys Januarius, Maxima and Macaria, in North Africa.
 * Martyr Concessa, a martyr venerated from early times in Carthage in North Africa.
 * Saint Amantius of Como, successor of St Provinus as Bishop of Como in Italy (440)
 * Saint Perpetuus, Bishop of Tours in France (490)
 * Saint Redemptus, Bishop of Ferentini in Italy (586)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Philaret of Seminara (Filarete of Calabria), Calabria (ca. 1070)
 * Saint Niphont, Bishop of Novgorod (1156)
 * Venerable Rufus the Recluse (Rufus the Obedient), of the Kiev Caves (14th century) (see also: April 6)
 * New Martyr John (Koulikas) (1564)
 * New Martyr John Naukliros ("the Navigator"), burned alive on Kos (1669)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Sergius Rodakovsky, Archpriest, of Tal, Belorussia (1933)

Other commemorations

 * Spanish Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (792)
 * Repose of Righteous Helen Voronova (1916), disciple of Elder Barsanuphius of Optina Monastery.