title: April 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # April 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  April 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 24
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For April 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed on April 10.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Martyrs Donatus and Therinus of Bothrotus, in Epirus (c. 250)
  * Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George (303)
  * Martyr Polychronia, mother of Great-martyr Saint George, a Greek native of Lydda (Diospolis) (303)
  * Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of St. George; and martyrs Glycerius and Athanasius the Magician, at Nicomedia (303)
  * Martyr Valerius, by the sword.
  * Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian (303) (see also: April 21)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212) (see also: April 24)
  * Saint Marolus, a Syrian by origin, he became Bishop of Milan in Italy in 408 (423)
  * Saint Ibar of Beggerin (Iberius, Ivor), an enlightener in Ireland, who mainly preached in Leinster and Meath (5th century)
  * Saint Pusinna, a holy virgin in Champagne in France who had six sisters, all widely honoured as saints (5th-6th centuries)
  * Saint Gerard of Toul, Bishop of Toul in France (994)
  * Saint Adalbert of Prague (Voitech), Bishop of Prague (997)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Blessed George of Shenkursk, Fool-for-Christ (1462)
  * New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Ptolemais (1752)
  * King Solomon I of Imeretia, Georgia (1784)
  * New Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria, who suffered at Pergamus (1802)
  * Blessed Sophia of Kleisoura (Myrtidiotissa in Schema), the ascetic of Kleisoura, Fool-for-Christ (1974) (see also: May 6 - ns)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Priest Igor (George) of Spas Chekriak village, Russia (1918)
  * New Hieromartyr John Anserov, Priest of Alma-Ata (1940)
  * New Hieromartyr Sergius Zacharczuk, priest, of Nabroz, Chełm and Podlasie, Poland (1943)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Repose of Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhny Novgorod (1963)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George.
  * Altar with sarcophagus containing the relics of Saint Venerius, Marolus, Glycerius, Lazarus, Bishops of Milan.
  * Saint Ibar of Beggerin
  * Tomb of Saint Gerard of Toul in the cathedral of Toul.
  * Saint Adalbert of Prague (15th century)
  * Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhni-Novgorod.
  