Orthodox saints and name days on April 4

Name days on April 4

Titos, Tito, Tite, Titus, Claudia, Klavdia, Zosimas, Zosimos, Zosima

Saints and feasts of April 4

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  Titos

  Apostle, Τίτος

  St. Titus was a disciple and companion of the Apostle Paul, who called him his true son in the common faith. A Greek by birth, he accompanied Paul on his apostolic journeys, was entrusted with delicate missions to the churches, and received the epistle that bears his name, in which Paul instructs him in the ordering of the Church.

  Name days: Titos, Tito, Tite, Titus

• Claudia

  Holy Woman, Κλαυδία

  St. Claudia was a martyr of the early Church who suffered for Christ during the Roman persecutions. The synaxaria preserve little of her life beyond her faithful confession, numbering her among the holy women who chose death rather than deny the Lord.

  Name days: Claudia, Klavdia

• Zosimas of Palestine

  Venerable, Ζωσιμάς

  Zosimas entered the monastic life as a child and lived for many decades in a monastery of Palestine before moving to a community near the Jordan. Going into the desert during Great Lent, as was the custom there, he met the ascetic Mary of Egypt and heard from her the story of her repentance.

  Name days: Zosimas, Zosimos, Zosima

• Pherbutha of Persia

  Holy Woman, Φερβούθη

  Pherbutha was the sister of the hieromartyr Simeon, bishop of Persia. After his death she, her widowed sister, and her servant were accused of sorcery by the Zoroastrian priests and brought before the Persian king.

• Publius of Egypt

  Venerable, Πόπλιος

  Publius lived as a hermit in the Egyptian desert in the fourth century. Tradition relates that by his prayers he hindered a demon sent by the emperor Julian the Apostate, who had set out to make war on the Persians.

• Plato of Studion

  Venerable, Πλάτων ο Στουδίτης

  Plato was born in Constantinople in the eighth century, orphaned young, and became a monk on Mount Olympus in Bithynia. He founded the Monastery of Sakkoudion and later guided his nephew Theodore, who became the great abbot of the Studion.

• Theonas of Thessalonica

  Hierarch, Θεωνάς Θεσσαλονίκης

  Theonas lived on Mount Athos in the sixteenth century as a disciple of Saint James of Kastoria, and after his teacher's martyrdom founded the Monastery of Saint Anastasia Pharmakolytria near Thessalonica.

• George of Maleon

  Venerable, Γεώργιος ο εν Μαλεώ

  George refused a marriage arranged by his parents and withdrew to Mount Maleon in the Peloponnese, where he lived as a monk in the ninth century. He was granted the gift of foresight and, tradition relates, foretold the day of his own repose.