1 Мая 1940 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, May 1, 1940 (April 18, 1940 by the Julian calendar)
Bright Week

Entire week. Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Holy Mount Sinai (movable holiday on the Wednesday of the Bright Week). “Kasperov” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Wednesday of the Bright Week). St. John, disciple of St. Gregory of Decapolis (820). New Hieromartyr Bessarion priest (1918). New Hieromartyr Michael confessor, priest (1935). Martyrs Victor, Zoticus, Zeno, Acindynus, and Severian of Nicomedia (ca. 303). St. Cosmas, bishop of Chalcedon, and his fellow-ascetic St. Auxentius (815-820). New Martyr John Yanitsky (1526). St. Euthymius the Enlightener of Karelia (1435), and Sts. Anthony and Felix of St. Nicholas Monastery in Karelia. "Maximov" Icon of the Mother of God (1299). New Martyr John the New of Epirus (1526) (Greek). Monks John and Athanasius of Aegina (Greek). New Hieromartyrs Priests Nicholas (1937) and Basil (Derzhavin) (1930) and lay people of the city of Gorodets, Nizhni-Novgorod. St. Naucratius, abbot of the Studion (848). St. Athanasia the Wonderworker of Aegina (9th c.). St. Basil Ratishvili of the Holy Mountain, Georgia (13th c.). Martyr Sabbas the Goth (372).