April 8

Feasts

Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes, and those with them; Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome; Martyr Pausilippus of Heraclea in Thrace; Saint Niphon, Bishop of Novgorod; Venerable Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Caves; New-Martyr John Naukliros ("the Skipper") in Thessaly; Iberian ("Spanish") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos; repose of Righteous Helen Voronova, disciple of Elder Barsanuphius of Optina