19 Апреля 1953 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, April 19, 1953 (April 6, 1953 by the Julian calendar)
3-rd Sunday of Pascha, The Myrrh-bearing Women, Tone two

Sts. Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha). Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia (movable holiday on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women). St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582). + St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, enlightener of the Slavs (885). New Hieromartyr John priest (1934). New Hieromartyr James priest (1943). St. Sebastian, Elder of Optina and Karaganda (1966). St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis (308). 120 Martyrs of Persia (345). Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias the Presbyter. St. Gregory of St. Athanasius monastery on Mt. Athos, instructor of St. Gregory Palamas (1308). St. Gregory the Sinaite (1346). New Martyr Nicholas of Lesbos (1463). New Monk-martyr Gennadius of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, who suffered at Constantinople (1818). New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace (1835).