Friday, 17 April 2026
4 April 2026 on the Old calendar
- ✠Bright Friday
- Feast of the Life-Giving Spring of the Mother of God
Liturgical colour: red
Saints of the day
- Venerable Zosimas the Abbot of Solovki († 1478)
- Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, Priests Abdechalas and Ananias, and Martyrs Usthazanes, Phusicus, Askitrea, Azades, and others († 344)
- St. Acacius the Bishop of Melitene († c. 435)
- St. Michael the New Hieroconfessor († 1935)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Theodore († 1942)
- Finding of the relics of Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1641)
- Martyr Adrian of Corinth († 251)
- Holy Hierarch Agapitus, Pope of Rome († 536)
- Venerable Paisius of Kiev, the Fool-for-Christ
Fasting
No fastAny food is fine.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.