Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
April 17
Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,
Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics
- Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, and those with him: Martyrs Abdechalas and Ananias, presbyters, Usthazanes, Fusicus (Pusicius), Ascitrea, and Azat the eunuch.
- Martyr Adrian of Corinth.
- St. Acacius, Bishop of Melitene.
- St. Zosimas, abbot of Solovki.
- St. Agapitus, pope of Rome.
- Opening of the Relics of St. Alexander, abbot of Svir.
- St. Macarius of Corinth.
- Repose of Blessed Paisius, fool-for-Christ of the Kiev Caves (1893).
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