Saint George Matskvereli, Bishop of Atsquri in Georgia.
George was a Georgian hierarch who served as Bishop of Atsquri in the south-west of Georgia around the end of the ninth and beginning of the tenth centuries. He is remembered in the writings of the Georgian hagiographers of that period as a holy and learned pastor.
He is venerated by the Georgian Church and appears in the Greek synaxaria on this day.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, George of Atsquri is commemorated on April 2. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on April 15 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on April 2
Amphianus and Edesius of Lycia
Martyr, Αμφιανός και Αιδέσιος
Holy Martyrs Amphianus and Edesius, brothers from Patara in Lycia who suffered under Maximinus.
Polycarp of Alexandria
Martyr, Πολύκαρπος
Holy Martyr Polycarp of Alexandria, who rebuked the persecutor and was put to death.
Theodora of Tyre
Holy Woman, Θεοδώρα η Παρθενομάρτυς
Holy Virgin Martyr Theodora of Tyre, a maiden of seventeen who confessed Christ before the governor of Palestine.
Gregory of Nicomedia
Venerable, Γρηγόριος ο εν Νικομηδεία
Venerable Gregory, who lived the ascetic life near Nicomedia.
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