18 April 1956, Wednesday (05.04 according to the old style)
Church calendar for 18 April 1956
Saints commemorated
- Hierarch Job, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia ок. 1525 — †19 июня 1607
- Martyr Agathopus of Thessalonica † 303–305
- Venerable Plato the Confessor of Studion 735 — 813
- Righteous Theodora of Thessalonica ок. 812 — 892