9 April
18 commemorations of 9 April in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 22 April of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyrs Fortunatus, Donatus, twelve virgins, and six laymen, at Sirmium (304)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyrs Desan the Bishop, the Priest Mariabus, Martyr Abdiesus and 270 others, martyrs of Persia under Shapur II (362)Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐδιησοῦς ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ τριακόσιοι Μάρτυρες ἐν Περσίδιsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Hieromartyr Bademus (Vadim), Archimandrite, of Persia, and 7 disciples (379)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βάδιμος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Acacius of Amida, Bishop of Amida in Mesopotamia (5th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀκάτιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀμίδης Μεσοποταμίαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Newly Revealed Martyrs Raphael (Archimandrite), Nicholas (Deacon), Irene (child), and Eleni (who was also called Susanna) of Lesbos, and those with them (1463)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ραφαὴλ, Νικόλαος καὶ Εἰρήνη οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Misael, Archbishop of Ryazan and Murom (1655)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Gabriel Fomin (1942)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Martyrs of Pannonia, seven virgin-martyrs in Sirmium in Pannoniaorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs of North-West Africa, a group of Christians martyred in Masylaorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Die, celebrated for miracles (474)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Madrun (Materiana), a saint from Wales or Cornwall to whom some Welsh churches are dedicated (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Dotto, Abbot of a monastery in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Waltrude (Woutruide, Waldetrudis, Vaudru), monastic foundress at Bergen (Netherlands), renowned for holiness of life and miracles (688)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hugh of Rouen (Hugh of Champagne), Bishop of Rouen and then of Paris, and was also Abbot of Fontenelle and Jumièges (730)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hedda and Companions, Abbot of Peterborough in England, martyred by the Danes (869)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Theodore and Companions, Abbot of Crowland in England, martyred by the Danes (869)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Casilda of Toledo, an anchoress near Briviesca near Burgos (1050)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Translation of the holy relics of Saint Monica of Tagaste to RomeΜετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίας Μόνικας εἰς Ρώμηsynaxarion.gr
The list is April 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.