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May 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 20.

Saints

  • Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Moura (Maura), at Antinoöpolis, Egypt (304)
  • Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning (285-305) <small>(see also April 29)</small>
  • Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Byzantium (313) <small>(see also June 10)</small>
  • Great Martyr Xenia the Wonderworker, of Kalamata, Peloponnesus (318)
  • Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire
  • Saint Mamai, Catholicos of Georgia (744)
  • Saints Michael and Arsenius of Ulompo, Georgia (9th century)
  • Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, Peloponnese (925)
  • Saint Oecumenius (Ecumenius, Ekoumenios) the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trikala (Tricca) (10th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (c. 106-115)
  • Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (c. 113-119) (The identification of the martyr Alexander with the Pope was removed from the Roman Calendar by Pope John XXIII in 1960.)|group=note
  • Saint Juvenal of Narni (c. 369/377)
  • Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th century)
  • Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)
  • Saint Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th century)
  • Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow.
  • Martyr Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)
  • Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th century)
  • Saints Silas (1783), Paisius and Nathan (1784), monks of Putna Monastery, Moldova.
  • Saint Irodion (Ionescu) of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr John Vilensky, Priest of Semyonovskoe (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Izvolsky, Archpriest, of Manchuria (1930)

Other commemorations

  • Translation of the relics (1011) of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion (953) <small>(see also: February 7 - feast day)</small>
  • Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople, to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)
  • "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)
  • Finding of the relics (2018) of Saint John (Vilenskiy) of Yaroslavl (1918) <small>(see also: October 28)</small>

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File:Petros Archiepiskopos Argous.JPG|St. Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis.

File:Sanctus Alexander Papa Sancta Maria Antiqua.jpg|Pope Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (8th-c. fresco from Santa Maria Antiqua)

File:Narni - Chiesa di San Giovenale 7.JPG|Church of St. Juvenal of Narni (Chiesa di San Giovenale, a Narni).

File:Abdijkerk Thorn - Ramen H-Ansifridus H-Hilsonidis.jpg|St. Ansfried of Utrecht and his wife Hereswint (or Hilsondis), founders of the abbey of Thorn (Limburg, Netherlands) on two stainded glass windows (1956).

File:Feodosij Pecherskij.jpg|St. Theodosius of Kiev.

File:Григорий Ростовский.jpg|St. Gregory, Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake.

File:Hosios Loukas (nave, lunette on west wall of north cross-arm) - Luke of Steiris 01.jpg|St. Luke of Steiris (Hosios Loukas)

File:Ікона Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці Лавська іконописна школа.jpg|Kiev-Pechersk Icon of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God.

File:Свенская (Печерская) икона Божией Матери.jpg|"Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.

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Notes

References

Sources

  • May 3/16, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
  • May 16 / May 3, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
  • May 3. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • AN ENGLISH ORTHODOX CALENDAR
  • May 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • May 3, The Roman Martyrology.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 125–126.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 3 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 3 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

  • 16 мая (3 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 3 мая (ст.ст.) 16 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).