Orthodox saints and name days on April 5

Name days on April 5

Theodoulos, Argyris, Argyrios, Argiris, Argyro, Argiro, Argyri, Argyre, Argyroula

Saints and feasts of April 5

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  Theodoulos

  Martyr, Θεόδουλος

  St. Theodoulos was a young reader of the church of Thessaloniki who suffered martyrdom during the persecution of Diocletian at the beginning of the fourth century. Tradition remembers him together with the elder deacon Agathopous; refusing to surrender the holy books or deny Christ, the two were condemned and cast into the sea.

  Name days: Theodoulos

• Claudius, Diodorus, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Serapion and Nicephorus

  Martyr, Κλαύδιος, Διόδωρος, Ουίκτωρ, Ουικτωρίνος, Παππίας, Σεραπίων και Νικηφόρος

  These seven martyrs are commemorated together in the Greek synaxaria. Tradition places their martyrdom at Corinth in the persecution of the third century, where after various tortures they were put to death for Christ.

• Theodora and Didymus of Alexandria

  Martyr, Θεοδώρα και Δίδυμος

  Theodora, a Christian maiden of Alexandria, refused to sacrifice to idols and was condemned to a house of shame. The soldier Didymus, himself a Christian, entered in disguise, exchanged clothes with her and let her escape.

• Argyre the New Martyr

  Holy Woman, Αργυρή

  Argyre was born in Prousa in Bithynia and was married young. A Turkish neighbour who desired her, and was refused, accused her falsely of having promised to embrace Islam, and she was brought to trial.

  Name days: Argyris, Argyrios, Argiris, Argyro, Argiro, Argyri, Argyre, Argyroula

• Theodora of Thessalonica

  Holy Woman, Θεοδώρα η εν Θεσσαλονίκη

  Theodora was born on the island of Aegina in the ninth century and married there; fleeing Arab raids, the family settled in Thessalonica. After the death of her husband she entered the convent of Saint Stephen in that city, where her own daughter later became abbess.

• George of Ephesus

  Martyr, Γεώργιος ο εξ Εφέσου

  George was a Christian of Ephesus in Asia Minor who, in the years of Ottoman rule, was pressed to abandon his faith. Tradition relates that he confessed Christ firmly before the authorities and was put to death in his native region in the early nineteenth century.

• Panagiotis of Jerusalem

  Martyr, Παναγιώτης ο Ιεροσολυμίτης

  Panagiotis was a young Christian who, according to the synaxaria, was slandered before the Ottoman authorities in Jerusalem and pressed to renounce his faith. He refused to deny Christ and was beheaded in the Holy City in the early nineteenth century.