Saints of 4 April
The feast, the saints of the day, and the Roman Martyrology for 4 April.
Feasts in 2026
Saturday 4 April 2026.
- Ordinary Form: Holy Saturday. Solemnity, violet. Also kept: St Isidore of Seville.
- 1962 calendar: Holy Saturday. First class, violet. Also kept: S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church.
Feasts that depend on the date of Easter fall on a different day each year.
Saints of the day
- St Isidore of Seville. Bishop and Doctor, encyclopaedist.
Roman Martyrology
St Isidore (Seville)
At Seville, in Spain, St. Isidore, a bishop eminent country by his zeal for the Catholic faith, and the observance.of ecclesiastical discipline.
Ss. Agathopodes and Theodulus (Thessalonica)
At Thessalonica, in the time of the emperor Maximian and the governor Faustinus, the holy martyrs Agathopodes, a deacon, and Theodulus, a lector, who, for the confession of the Christian faith, were thrown into the sea with stones tied to their necks.
St Ambrose, bishop and confessor (Milan)
At Milan, the demise of St. Ambrose, bishop and confessor, through whose labors, learning and miracles, almost all Italy returned to the Catholic faith, at the time when the perfidious Arian heresy was widely diffused.
St Plato of Constantinople
At Constantinople, St. Plato, a monk, who for many years combated with invincible courage the heretics that were breaking sacred images.
St Zosimus (Palestine)
In Palestine, the anchoret St. Zozimus, who buried the remains of St. Mary of Egypt.
From the 1916 English edition of the Roman Martyrology, which is in the public domain. Saints canonised since then are added with a short note.
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