title: April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  April 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 22
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For April 21, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 8.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Martyrs Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius (c. 138-161) (see also: April 19 - Greek)
  * Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian, and those with her (303): (see also: April 23)
  
     * Martyrs Isaacius, Apollo, and Codratus, of Nicomedia.
  * Hieromartyrs Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and his companions (c. 305)
  
     * Faustus, Proclus, and Sosius, Deacons;
  
     * Desiderius, Reader; and
  
     * Gantiol, Eutychius, and Acutius, laymen, at Pozzuoli.
  * Saint Maximianus, Archbishop of Constantinople (434)
  * Venerable Anastasius Sinaita, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai (c. 700) (see also: April 20 - Slavic)
  * Martyr Karol (Charles)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Cyprian, Bishop of Brescia (582)
  * Saint Beuno, Abbot, of Clynnog Fawr, Wales (642)
  * Saint Maelruba of Apur Crossan (Maelrubius, Maolrubha), Ireland (722)
  * Saint Frodulphus (Frou), a monk at St Martin's in Autun (c. 750)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Saint Theodore the Philosopher of Kamske, martyred by Mongols (1323)
  * Venerable Jacob (Jakov, James), Abbot of Stromynsk Monastery, Radonezh (1392)
  * Saint Alexis, Priest of, Bortsurmany, Nizhny Novgorod (1848)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr John Prigorovsky, Priest (1918)
  * Saint Nicholas Pisarevsky, Confessor, Priest (1933)
  * New Hieromartyr Alexis Protopopov, Priest (1938)
  * New Hieromartyr Protopresbyter Basil Martysz of Teratyn, Chelm and Podlasie, Poland (1945) (see also: May 4)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Synaxis of The Mozdok Icon of the Mother of God (Mozdokskaya) (1768)
  * Uncovering of the relics (1999) of St. Theodore, Abbot of Sanaxar Monastery (1791)
  * Repose of Schemamonk Nicetas of Valaam Monastery (1907)
  * Repose of Elder Dometian of Tula (1908)
  * Repose of Hieroschemamonk Antipas II of Valaam Monastery (1912)
  * Repose of Nun Stefanida of Kosovo, Serbia.
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Martyrs Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius.
  * St. Alexandra the Empress.
  * Hieromartyrs Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and his companions.
  * Venerable Anastasius Sinaita, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai.
  * Saint Beuno, Abbot, of Clynnog Fawr, Wales.
  * New Hieromartyr Protopresbyter Basil Martysz of Teratyn.
  