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May 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 11.

Saints

  • Martyrs Meletius Stratelates, Stephen, John, and 1218 soldiers with women and children, including:

:* Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the former Magician, Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna, and Palladia, two children Cyriacus and Christian; and

:* Twelve tribunes: Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, and Didymus — all of whom suffered in Galatia (c.138-161)

  • Venerable Symeon Stylites the Younger of the Wonderful Mountain (c. 596)
  • Saint Kyriakos (Cyriacus) of Evrychou, in Cyprus, the Wonderworker.
  • Nun-martyr Martha, abbess of Monemvasia (990) <small>(see also: May 23)</small>
  • Martyr Afra (304)
  • Saint Vincent of Lerins (445)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Venerable Nikita Stylites, Wonderworker of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1186)
  • Saint Gregory of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod and Pskov (1193)
  • Saint Blondina Gobjilă (Blondina of Iași, Mama Blondina), a Confessor from the communist period who was exiled to Siberia for 15 years (1971)

New martyrs and confessors

  • Martyrdom by the Poles of Abbot Anthony, 40 monks, and over 1,000 laymen at the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (1609)
  • Glorification (1988) of Saint Xenia of Petersburg, fool-for-Christ (c.1803)
  • Repose of Monk Cyriacus of Valaam (1818)

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File:Simeon Stylites the Younger.jpg|St. Simeon Stylites the Younger.

File:Basilique Saint-Donatien et Saint-Rogatien tomb.jpg|Tomb of Sts. Donatian and Rogatian in the Basilica of Sts. Donatian and Rogatian. The tomb is empty, as the relics were transferred to Ostia in the twelfth century.

File:Heilige Afra.jpg|St. Afra.

File:Peinture Saint-Patrice.JPG|Saint Patricius (Patrice), Bishop of Bayeux.

File:Icon of St Vincent of Lerins by Bojan Teodosijević.jpg|Saint Vincent of Lerins.

File:Nikita Stolpnik with riza (16th c., GTG) by shakko.jpg|St. Nikita Stylites.

File:Митрополит Никифор посвящает Гаврилу Николаевича в епископы новгородские под именем Григорий.png|Metropolitan Nikephoros consecrates Gabriel Nikolaevich as Bishop of Novgorod under the name Gregory.

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Notes

References

Sources

  • May 24/June 6. Orthodox Calendar (ORTHOCHRISTIAN.COM).
  • June 6 / May 24. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • May 24. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • May 24. The Roman Martyrology.
  • May 24. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 24 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 24 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

  • 6 июня (24 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 24 мая (ст.ст.) 6 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).