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Apr. 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 2.

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 18.

Saints

  • Prophet Jeremiah (c. 655 – 586 BC)|group=note
  • Martyr Philosophos at Alexandria (252)
  • Martyr Sabbas
  • Venerable Hieromartyr Batas of Nisibis (Bata the Persian) (c. 364)
  • Venerable Isidora the Fool-for-Christ, of Tabennisi, Egypt (c. 365)
  • New Monk-martyr Romanus of Raqqa (780)
  • Saint Symeon of Syracuse (or of Mount Sinai or Trier) (1035)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyr Andeolus of Smyrna, a subdeacon from Smyrna sent to France by St Polycarp, martyred near Viviers on the Rhône (208)