Bright Saturday
In Russian: Светлая Суббота
In Church Slavonic: Сꙋббѡ́та свѣ́тлыѧ седми́цы
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (5 April on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
2027
Old calendar
- (25 April on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
Also commemorated on 18 April 2026
- Translation of the relics of the Holy Hierarch Job, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1652)
- Martyrs Agathopous the Deacon and Theodulus the Reader and those with them († c. 303)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Alexis († 1930)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Nicholas († 1931)
- Venerable Publius of Egypt (4th C)
- Venerable Theonas, Simeon, and Phorbinus of Egypt (4th C)
- Venerable Mark the Anchorite of Athens († 400)
- Venerable Plato the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion Monastery († 814)
- Venerable Theodora of Thessalonica († 892)