27 Апреля 2016 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 (April 14, 2016 by the Julian calendar)
Passion Week: Great Wednesday

Great Lent. St. Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655). New Hieromartyr Alexander confessor, priest (1941). Martyrs Anthony, John and Eustathius of Vilnius (Lithuania) (1347). Martyr Ardalion the Actor, who suffered under Maximian (3rd c.). Martyr Azat the Eunuch and 1,000 Martyrs in Persia (341). Monk-martyr Christopher of Mar Sabbas (797). "Vilna" Icon of the Mother of God. St. Cyriacus, bishop of Jerusalem (4th c.) (Greek). Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens, and Trophimus of the Seventy (Greek). New Martyr Sergius (Trofimov) of Nizhni-Novgorod and one with him (1918). New Martyr Demetrius of the Peloponnesus, who suffered at Tripoli (1803).