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May 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 26
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 12.
Feasts
- Third Finding of the Precious Head of Saint John the Baptist (c. 850)
Saints
- Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others, at Dorostolum (302)
- Hieromartyr Therapontus, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century)
- Saint Olbian (Albianos), monk. <small>(see also: May 29)</small>
- Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th century) <small>(see also: May 17, June 2)</small>
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230)
- Martyr Celestine, in Rome, severely tortured with hot irons.
- Saint Dionysios (Dionysius Mariani, Denis), Bishop of Milan (359)
- Hieromartyrs Maximus and Victorinus, brothers martyred near Évreux, France (c. 384)
- Saint Zenobius, first Bishop of Florence (390)
- Saint Leo of Troyes (Saint-Lyé), monk who succeeded St Romanus as Abbot of Mantenay near Troyes, France (c. 550)
- Saints Injuriosus and Scholastica, a married couple in the Auvergne in France who lived in virginity and holiness (c. 550)
- Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)
- Saint Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (Dunchadh), the eleventh Abbot of Iona (707–717) in Scotland (717)
- Venerable Bede the Confessor, Hieromonk of Wearmouth-Jarrow (735)
- Saint Dmitry, Price of Uglich, son of Andrey Vasilyevich (c. 1540)
- Saint Thekla of Pereyaslavl, nun, (mother of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski +1540) (16th century)
- Saint Thaddeus, Archimandrite, of Svatogorsk Monastery (1758)
- Synaxis of the Saints of Volhynia:
- Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.
New martyrs and confessors
- Virgin-Martyr Elena (Korobkova) (1938)
- New Martyr Tavrion (Tolokontsev), Monk, of Veliki Ustiug (1939)
- 1,290 New Martyrs of Piva, Montenegro, killed by the Nazis (1943)
