April 10 (old calendar) /  April 23 (new)

April 10 (old calendar) /  April 23 (new) Great and Holy Tuesday  Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus, Maximus, Zeno, Alexander, Theodore, Macarius, and 33 others, beheaded at Carthage (3rd c.). Martyrs James (Jacob) the Presbyter, and Azadanes and Abdicius—Deacons, of Persia (ca. 380). Parable of the ten virgins These three days, which the Church calls Great and Holy have within the liturgical development of the Holy Week a very definite purpose.