May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 16 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (ca.106-115)^[1]
• Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (ca.113-119)^{[1][2][note 1]}
• Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinopolis in Egypt (304)^[2][4]
• Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia (285-305)^[2][5]
• Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire.^[6]
• Great-martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, the Wonderworker (318)^[7]
• Saint Juvenal of Narni (ca.369/377)^[1][2][8]
• Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th c.)^[1]
• Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of St Columba (563)^[1]
• Saint Adalsindis, sister of St Waldalenus, founder of the monastery of Bèze in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze (ca.680)^[1]
• Saint Æthelwine (Elwin, Ethelwin), Bishop of Lindsey (ca. 700)^[1]
• Saint Mamai the Katholikos of Georgia (744)^[9]
• Saint Philip of Worms (770) (Philip of Zell)^[1][10]
• Saint Michael of Ulompo, Georgia (9th c.)^[11]
• Saint Arsenius of Georgia (9th c.)^[11]
• Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis (925)^[12]
• Saint Ecumenius of Trikala, the Wonderworker (10th c.)^[13]
• Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)^[1]
• Saint Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074)^[14]
• St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th c.)^[15][16]
• Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow^[16]
• Saint Gregory Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott of Kamennoi Monastery (Monastery of the Transfiguration) at Kubenski Lake, in Vologda province) (1416)^[17]
• Martyr Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)^[18]
• Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th c.)^[19]
• New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821)^[20]
• Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)^[21]
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas, priest (1941)^[15]

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion (953)^[22]
• Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)^[15]
• "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)

Notes

1. ^ Tradition relates that, after a lengthy imprisonment, Pope Saint Alexander I and two priests, Eventius and Theodulus, were burned and then beheaded during Hadrian's persecution. During his imprisonment, Alexander is said to have brought Saint Quirinus and his daughter Saint Balbina to the faith. Today's saints were buried on the Via Nomentana near Rome. Their relics were later translated to the church of Saint Sabina, which now belongs to the Dominicans. Although called Pope Alexander in the Roman Martyrology, all sources agree that this is probably an erroneous listing (Benedictines, Coulson, Delaney, Husenbeth).^[3] (The identification of the martyr Alexander with the Pope was removed from the Roman Calendar by Pope John XXIII in 1960.)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} May 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} May 3. The Roman Martyrology.
3. ^ May 3. St. Patrick Catholic Church - Saint of the Day.
4. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τιμόθεος καὶ Μαύρα οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Διόδωρος καὶ Ροδοπιανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι εἴκοσι ἑπτὰ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. ^ Ἡ Ἁγία Ξενία ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰουβενάλιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ναρνί. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάμας Πατριάρχης Γεωργίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Φίλιππος ὁ ἐν Βόρμς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. ^ ^{a b} Οἱ Ὅσιοι Μιχαὴλ καὶ Ἀρσένιος ἐκ Γεωργίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἄργους. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Οἰκουμένιος Ἐπίσκοπος Τρίκκης. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος καθηγούμενος τῆς Λαύρας τῶν Σπηλαίων τοῦ Κιέβου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. ^ ^{a b c} May 16, 2011 / May 3, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
16. ^ ^{a b} May 3/16, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
17. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ροστώβ, Γιαροσλάβλ καὶ Λευκῆς Λίμνης. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀχμὲτ ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Κάλφας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ Μάρτυρας ἐκ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀναστασία καὶ Χριστόδουλος οἱ Νεομάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
21. ^ THE GLORIFICATION OF SAINT IRODION OF LAINICI (+1900). Ecumenical Patriarchate - Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (OMHKSEA).
22. ^ Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Λουκᾶ τοῦ ἐν Στειρίῳ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• May 3/16, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
• May 16, 2011 / May 3, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• AN ENGLISH ORTHODOX CALENDAR
• May 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 3, The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• 3 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.