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May 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 3

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 19.

Saints

  • Martyrs Hesperos (Exuperius) and Zoe, and their sons Cyriacos and Theodoulos, at Attalia (c. 124)
  • Saint Jordan the Wonderworker
  • Saint Sabbas, Bishop of Dafnousia
  • Saint Boris-Michael, Prince and baptizer of Bulgaria, Equal-to-the-Apostles (907)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Valentine, Bishop of Genoa in Italy c. 295-307, (c. 307)
  • Saint Germanus of Normandy, converted by St Germanus of Auxerre, martyred in France (c. 460)|group=note
  • Saint Waldebert (Walbert, Gaubert), abbot of Luxeuil in France (c. 668)
  • Saint Serapion (Sysoev), Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1653)
  • Saint Jacob (Putneanul), Metropolitan of Moldova (1778)
  • Saint Matrona the Blind, the Righteous Wonderworker of Moscow (1952) <small>(see also: February 23 - Finding of relics)</small>

Other commemorations

  • Translation of the relics of Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria (Athanasios the Great) (373)