Today: All the holidays and the most important events of April 24

• Dogma
• April 24, 2024
• 0:11

Holidays of Orthodoxy, important historical, political, social events, births and deaths that happened like today, April 24. In 2015, in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the Divine Liturgy and the procession of the Thyranoixians of the historic Holy Monastery of Agios Georgios in Old Cairo were held. The sacrament of the Holy Eucharist was performed by the Patriarch of Alexandria, Mr. Theodoros, and the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Mr. Ieronymos, concelebrated. Then the new museum of Agios Georgios Cairo was inaugurated.

The Church today honors the memory of Saints Elizabeth the miracle worker and Sava the Russian. Hieromartyrs Achilles, Philip and Fortunatus. Martyron Valentionos and Pasikratus. Soldier’s Sabbath of Goth, and of the 70 soldiers believed by him. Eusebius, Leontius, Longinus, Neonos, Christophoros, Demetrius, Danavus and Nestavos. Neomartyrons Duke of Mytilene, of Vasilevousi (†1564) and Nikolaos of Magnesia (†1776).
Some of the most important events that happened today, April 24.

1184 BC According to one view, the Greeks capture Troy, which they enter using the Trojan Horse.

1533 William I is born, Prince of Orange who led the liberation struggle of the Dutch against the Spanish.

1783 Grigory Orlov, a Russian officer, a favorite of Tsarina Catherine the Great, who tried to raise up his enslaved Greeks against the Ottomans, dies.

1792 Artillery captain Rouge Delil composes the Massaliotide, which today is the national anthem of France.

1821 Athanasios Diakos, hero of the Greek Revolution, who was executed by execution by the Turks in Lamia, dies.

1827 One day after the death of Karaiskakis in Faliro, the disastrous defeat of the Greek forces by Kioutachis follows in the area of ​​Analatos, today’s Nea Smyrni.

1871 Verdi’s opera “Aida” is presented for the first time in Egypt.

1877 today, April 24, Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1915 The Young Turks arrest 200 prominent Armenians of Constantinople. Beginning of the Armenian Genocide, which claimed the lives of 1.5 million people by 1923.

1944 today, April 24, the German occupation troops execute 318 residents of the village in Pyrgos (Katranitsa) Kozani, in retaliation for the execution of two German soldiers by ELAS forces.

2010 Dimitris Tsatsos, the distinguished Greek jurist and MP, dies.

2015 as of today, April 24, in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the Divine Liturgy and the sequence of Thyranoixia of the historic Holy Monastery of Agios Georgios in Old Cairo were held. The sacrament of the Holy Eucharist was performed by the Patriarch of Alexandria, Mr. Theodoros, and the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Mr. Ieronymos, concelebrated. Then the new museum of Agios Georgios Cairo was inaugurated.

photos: Christos Bonis