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May 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 7
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 23.
Saints
- Righteous Job the Long-suffering (c. 2000-1500 B.C.)
- Martyrs Danax, Mesirus (Mesiurs), and Therin
- Martyrs Demetrius, and Donatus
- Saints Mamas, Pachomius, and Hilarion, monks
- Martyrs Cyria, Caleria (Valeria), and Marcia, of Caesarea in Palestine (304)
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus and seventy-five others in Africa (284–305)
- St. Benedicta, virgin, mystic and nun, lived in a convent founded by St. Galla in Rome (6th century)
- Saint Edbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698)
- Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino (c. 747)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saint
- Venerable Micah (Micheas), the disciple of the Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1385)
- Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century):
- Venerable Job of Pochaev, Abbot and Wonderworker (1651)
- Blessed Sophia of Kleisoura (Myrtidiotissa in Schema), the ascetic of Kleisoura, Fool-for-Christ (1974) <small>(see also: April 23 - os)</small>
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics (1238) of Saint Sava, first archbishop of Serbia (1235)|group=note
- Slaying of Priest John Karastamatis of Santa Cruz (1985)