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14 April

17 commemorations of 14 April in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 27 April of the civil calendar.

Saints

  • Apostles Aristarchus of Apamea, Pudens, and Trophimus of the Seventy Apostles (c. 67)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀρίσταρχος, Πούδης καὶ Τρόφιμος οἱ Ἀπόστολοι ἐκ τοὺς ἑβδομήκονταorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Ardalion the Actor, who suffered under Maximian (c. 305-311)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρδαλίων ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ μῖμοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Azat the Eunuch and 1,000 Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II (341)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (476)Ἡ Ἁγία Θωμαΐς ἡ Μάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
  • Saint St Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome (655)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable martyr Christopher the Sabbaite, of St. Sabbas’ Monastery (797)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Saint Vsevolod III Yuryevich the Big Nest, (Demetrius in holy baptism), Great Prince of Vladimir (1212)drevo-info.ru
  • Martyrs Anthony, John, and Eustathios, of Vilnius, Lithuania (1347)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀντώνιος, Ἰωάννης καὶ Εὐστάθιος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Demetrius of the Peloponnese, at Tripolis (1803)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Martyr Sergius (Trofimov) of Nizhni-Novgorod and companion (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Alexander Orlov, Confessor, Priest (1941)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.

  • Virgin-martyr Domnina of Terni and Companions, martyred in Terni in Italy at the same time as Bishop Valentine (c. 269)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyrs Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus, in Rome (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Tassach, one of St Patrick's earliest disciples and first Bishop of Raholp, Ireland (c. 495)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Abundius the Sacristan, a sacrist at St Peter's in Rome (c. 564)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Lambert of Lyon, Abbot of Fontenelle and Bishop of Lyon (688)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.

  • Synaxis of the Icon of the Mother of God of Vilnius (1465)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Βιλὲνσκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com

The list is April 14 (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.

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