Orthocal

Tuesday April 21, 2026 / April 8, 2026

Radonitsa, or Day of Rejoicing. Commemoration of the Dead. Tone one.

Calculated: No fasting (f0)

Remembrance

  • Radonitsa (Tuesday of the 2nd week of Pascha)

Saints

  1. Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes, and those with them (1st c.). primary
  2. St. Niphont, bishop of Novgorod (1156).
  3. Venerable Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).
  4. Martyr Pausilippus of Heraclea in Thrace (117-138).
  5. St. Celestine, pope of Rome (432).
  6. New Hieromartyr Sergius priest (1933)
  7. New Martyr John Naukliros ("the Navigator") in Thessaly (1699).
  8. Monk-martyrs Josias and Joseph of Mt. Kharasam, Persia (341).
  9. New Martyr John (Koulika) (1564).
  10. St. Philaret of Seminara, Calabria (1070).
  11. Spanish Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (792).

Scripture

  • Acts 4:1-10
  • John 3:16-21
  • 1 Corinthians 15:39-57 - Departed
  • John 5:24-30 - Departed