Orthodox saints and name days on April 6

Name days on April 6

Eutychios, Eftihos

Saints and feasts of April 6

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  Eutychios

  Hierarch, Ευτύχιος

  St. Eutychios was Patriarch of Constantinople in the sixth century, in the days of the emperor Justinian. A monk raised to the patriarchal throne, he presided at the Fifth Ecumenical Council, and later, refusing to accept a teaching that compromised the reality of Christ's human nature, he was deposed and spent years in exile in a monastery.

  Name days: Eutychios, Eftihos

• Gregory of Sinai

  Venerable, Γρηγόριος ο Σιναΐτης

  Gregory was born in Asia Minor in the thirteenth century, was taken captive by the Turks, and after his ransom became a monk on Sinai, then in Crete, and finally on Mount Athos. There he taught the practice of inner stillness and the Jesus Prayer, gathering many disciples.

• Platonis of Nisibis

  Holy Woman, Πλατωνίς

  Platonis served as a deaconess and then withdrew to the desert near Nisibis in Mesopotamia, where she founded a community of nuns under a strict rule of prayer, fasting and silence.

• 120 Martyrs of Persia

  Saint, Εκατόν Είκοσι Μάρτυρες εν Περσίδι

  These one hundred and twenty Christians were captured in the wars between the Byzantine and Persian empires in the fourth century and held in Persia. When they refused to worship fire and the sun they were condemned.

• Gennadios of Dionysiou

  Martyr, Γεννάδιος ο Διονυσιάτης

  Gennadios was a monk of the Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos. Tradition relates that as a youth he had been pressed to accept Islam and, repenting, went to Constantinople to confess Christ openly.

• Gregory the Byzantine

  Venerable, Γρηγόριος ο εν Άθω

  Gregory came from Constantinople to Mount Athos in the fourteenth century and lived in stillness in the desert places of the Holy Mountain. He is remembered chiefly as the elder who guided the young Gregory Palamas in the life of prayer.

• Five New Martyrs of Samothrace

  Saint, Πέντε Νεομάρτυρες Σαμοθράκης

  These five Christians of Samothrace had, under duress after the island was ravaged by the Turks, outwardly accepted Islam. Repenting, they returned openly to the Christian faith.