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May 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 18

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 4.

Saints

  • Apostles Andronicus of Pannonia and his fellow labourer Junia, of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
  • Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon, soldiers, at Chalcedon (c. 286-305)
  • Martyrs Adrion, Victor and Basilla, in Alexandria.
  • Saint Theodoret of Antioch, Hieromartyr (361–363)
  • Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th century) <small>(see also: May 25, June 2)</small>
  • Saint Stephen the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (893)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Restituta the martyr, in Carthage (255 or 304)
  • Martyrs Heradius, Paul, and Aquilinus, near Lake Geneva (284-305)
  • Saint Maden (Madern, Madron, Madrona) (c. 545)
  • Saint Cathán (Catan, Chattan, Cadan), Bishop in the Isle of Bute in Scotland (6th century)
  • Saint Mailduf (Maidulph, Maelduib), founder of Malmesbury Abbey (673)
  • Saint Gerebernus (Gerebern, Gerebrand), Hieromartyr, priest from Ireland who accompanied St Dymphna to Belgium and shared in her martyrdom (7th century) <small>(see also: July 7)</small>
  • Saints Nectarius (1550) and Theophanes (1544) the gate-keepers, brothers, of Meteora.
  • Great-martyr Nicholas of Sofia, Bulgaria (1555)
  • Saint Nicolas (Basdanis) the New Martyr of Metsovo (St Nicolas the Vlach) (1617)
  • Saint Athanasius the New, Bishop and Wonderworker of Christianoupolis (1707-1708)
  • Saint Jonah Atamansky, Archpriest of Odessa, Wonderworker (1924)

<!-- * New Martyr Eleazar (Lazarus), of the town of Vasen in Russia, martyred for the faith near Olonets (18th century)

Attention! "New Martyr Eleazar (Lazarus)" gains access to the ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ here: http://www.apostoliki-diakonia.gr/gr_main/eortologio/eortologio.asp?file=may/17.htm#15 and then here: http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/m/5/d/17/sxsaintlist.aspx and http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3232/sxsaintinfo.aspx (and from here to the: http://www.saint.gr/1625/saint.aspx) as a result of misunderstanding/ This man was not venerated by any of the local Orthodox Church. He was an Old Believer (!) and "venerated" not by Orthodox but by Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church only. Here is two links to Old-Rite "Church" Calendar (in Russian) for May 17 (old style)/May 30 (new style): http://rpsc.ru/calendar/2013-05-30/ (2013) and http://rpsc.ru/calendar/2014-05-30/ (2014). One can see and read: "Св. мч. и исп. Елеаза́ра, в Олонце́ за древлецерко́вное благоче́стие сожже́́ннаго (2-я пол. XVII)" (in English: "St. martyr and conf. Eleazar, in Olonets for the Old Believers' godliness burned (2nd half XVII)". In other words this Lazarus was a dissenter and died out of Orthodox Church. -->

Other commemorations

  • Commemoration of the Fall of Jerusalem in 614 AD to the Persians, with the loss of the True Cross to Persia, damage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by fire, and the martyrdom of over 65,000 Christians (614)