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Great and Holy Monday
Prophet JeremiahSaint Tamara (Tamar), Queen of Georgia (1212)Synaxis of the Three New Righteous Martyrs of the Holy Mountain, Euthymius, Ignatius, and Acacius (1814-1815)
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Great and Holy Tuesday
Saint Matrona (the Blind) of Moscow (1952)Holy Martyrs Hesperus, his wife Zoë, and their sons Cyriac and Theodulus (2nd c.)Holy Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (907)Translation of the Relics (1072 and 1115) of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, princes of Russia (1015)St Athanasius the Great, Patr. of Alexandria
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Great and Holy Wednesday
Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves
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Great and Holy Thursday
Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.)Virgin Martyr Pelagia of TarsusSt Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)
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Great and Holy Friday
Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica
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Great and Holy Saturday
Righteous Job the LongsufferingSt Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651)Holy Martyr Barbarus the Soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius (362)St. Sophia the Righteous (1974)
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The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 ADOur Holy Fathers of Georgia (6th c.)Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303)St Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in AmericaSt Lydia of Philippi (1st c.)
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Bright Monday
Holy Apostle John the TheologianOur Righteous Father Arsenios the Great (449)St Emilia (375), mother of Sts Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theosevia
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Bright Tuesday
Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the WonderworkerProphet IsaiahHoly Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)
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Bright Wednesday
Apostle Simon the ZealotHoly Martyrs Alphaeus, Philadelphus and Cyprinus of Sicily (251)St Isidora the Fool of Tabenna (Egypt) (4th c.)Blessed Thaïs (Taïsia) of Egypt (4th c.)
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Bright Thursday
SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the SlavsHoly Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)
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The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos
Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)
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Bright Saturday
Virgin Martyr GlyceriaHoly Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)
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St Thomas Sunday
Martyr Isidore of Chios (251)Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov
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Monday of the 2nd Sunday of Pascha
Ven. Pachomius the GreatOur Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)
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Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa)
Ven. Theodore the Sanctified; Trans. Rel. Ephraim, Abbot of PerekopSt Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930)Blessed Musa the Maiden (5th c.)St Brendan the Voyager, abbot of Clonfert (ca. 577)
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Wednesday of the 2nd Sunday of Pascha
Apostle Andronicus of the SeventyHoly Martyr Solochon (298)
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Thursday of the 2nd Sunday of Pascha
Martyr Theodotus of AncyraHoly Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)
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Friday of the 2nd Sunday of Pascha
Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prussa
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Saturday of the 2nd Sunday of Pascha
Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev
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Myrrhbearing Women
SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-ApostlesHoly New Martyr Pachomius (1730)
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Monday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha
Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of ComanaRighteous Melchizedek, king of Salem.Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).
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Tuesday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha
St Michael the Confessor; Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of RostovHoly Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of CleopasHoly Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.)Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)
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Wednesday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha
Ven. Simeon the StyliteVen. Nikita the StyliteSt Vincent of Lerins (445)
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Thursday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha
3rd Finding of the Head of St John the BaptistHoly Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th c.)Holy Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentian, Julius and those with them (302)
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Friday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha
Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the SeventySaint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605)Holy New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)
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Saturday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha
Hieromartyr Therapon; Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of StolbenskHoly Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)Holy New Confessor John the Russian (1730)Saint David of Garesjei (6th c.)Venerable Bede (Baeda) (735)
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Paralytic
St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon; St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov
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Monday of the 4th Sunday of Pascha
Virgin Martyr Theodosia of TyreCommemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325)The Fall of Constantinople (1453); "Blessed Constantine XII, last of the Byzantine emperors, martyred by the Turks (1453)"
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Tuesday of the 4th Sunday of Pascha
Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian MonasterySt Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)
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Midfeast of Pentecost
Apostle Hermes of the Seventy