May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 6

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 18 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Great-martyr Irene of Thessaloniki (4th c.)^[1]
• Martyrs Irenaeus, Pellegrinus and Irene, at Thessaloniki (284–305)^[2][3]
• Martyr Jovinian, the lector of St. Peregrine of Auxerre (ca.304)^[4]
• Martyrs Neophytus, Gaius, and Gaianus^[5]
• Saint Brito (Britonius) (386)^[4]
• Saint Eulogius the Confessor, bishop of Edessa (ca. 386)^[3]
• Saints Martin and Heraclius, of Illyria (4th c.)^[6][7]
• Saint Nectarius of Vienne, bishop of Vienne (ca.445)^[4]
• Saint Nicetus of Vienne, fifteenth bishop of Vienne (ca.449)^[4]
• Saint Hilarion, Archbishop of Arles (449)^[3][4][8]
• Saint Geruntius of Milan (470)^[3][4][9]
• Martyr Crescentiana of Rome (5th c.)^{[4][note 1]}
• Saint Hydrock (Hydroc) of Cornwall (5th c.)^[4]
• Saint Sacerdos of Saguntum (ca.560)^[3][4]
• Saint Waldrada, first Abbess of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnais in Metz in France (ca.620)^[4]
• Saint Maurontius of Douai (Maurontus, Mauront), founded monastery at Breuil-sur-lys near Douai, of which he is the patron-saint (701)^[4]
• Saint Echa of Crayke, (Etha), Anglo-Saxon priest and monk-hermit at Crayke, near York, England (767)^[4]
• Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, bishop of Madytos on the Hellespont (ca. 990)^[11]
• Saints Barlaam of Serpukhov and Gideon of Serpukhov (1377)^[12]
• New Monk-martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1426)^[13]
• Saint Adrian, abbot of Monza Monastery (1619)^[14]
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas, priest (1919)^[15]
• New Hieromartyr Platon of Banja Luka (Platon Jovanovic) (1941)^[16]

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (980)^[17] of Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)^[15]
• Uncovering of the relics (1613) of Saint James of Zheleznoborov, abbot of Zhelezny Bor (1442)^[18]
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Inexhaustible Cup” (1878)^[18][19]

Notes

1. ^ The only evidence for the life of Saint Crescentiana is a church in Rome dedicated to her that was already extant at the time of Pope Symmachus (498-514) (Benedictines).^[10]

References

1. ^ Ἡ Ἁγία Εἰρήνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εἰρηναῖος, Περεγρίνος καὶ Εἰρήνη οἱ Μάρτυρες ἐκ Θεσσαλονίκης, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} May 5. The Roman Martyrology.
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} May 5. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
5. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γαϊανός, Γάιος καὶ Νεόφυτος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. ^ May 5/18, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
7. ^ SAINT MARTIN AND SAINT HERACLIUS (From the Prologue). St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.
8. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἱλάριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀρελάτης. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Γερόντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Μιλάνου, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. ^ Katherine I. Rabenstein. May 5. Saint of the Day - St. Patrick Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.
11. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Μυροβλύτης Ἐπίσκοπος Μαδύτου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. ^ Οἱ Ὅσιοι Βαρλαὰμ καὶ Γεδεών, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Νέᾳ Μάκρῃ Ἀττικῆς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀδριανὸς ἐκ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. ^ ^{a b} May 18, 2011 / May 5, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
16. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Πλάτων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀχρίδος, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. ^ Blair, John (2002). "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints". In Thacker, Aland and Sharpe, Richard. Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p.512.
18. ^ ^{a b} May 5, OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
19. ^ Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Σιέρπουχωφ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• May 5/18, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
• May 18, 2011 / May 5, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• May 5, OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May 5. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 5. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• 5 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.