17 Апреля 2015 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Friday, April 17, 2015 (April 4, 2015 by the Julian calendar)
Bright Week

Entire week. "Life- giving Spring" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). Commemoration of the renewal (sanctification) of the Holy Theotokos temple near the Life-giving Spring in Constantinople (5th c.) (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). "Pochaev" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). St. Joseph the Hymnographer of Sicily (883). St. George, monk, of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus (9th c.). New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Benjamin (Kononov) and Hieromonk Nicephorus (Kuchin) of Solovki (1928). New Hieromartyr Nicolos bishop of Velsk (1932). St. Joseph the Muchailing of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). St. Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk (1550). St. Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (560). Virgin-martyr Pherbutha of Persia, her sister and servants (343). New Hieromartyr Nicetas the Serb of Albania, Mt. Athos and Serres (1808). St. Theonas, metropolitan of Thessalonica (1541). St. Isidore, bishop of Seville (636). St. James of Old Torzhok in Galich, Kostroma (15th-16th c.). Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1602).