May 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 19 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Righteous Job the Long-suffering^[1]
• Saint Lucius of Cyrene (1st c.)^[2]
• Martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus and seventy-five others in Africa (284–305)^[2][3]
• Martyrs Danax, Mesirus (Mesiurs), and Therin^[4]
• Martyrs Demetrius,^[5] and Donatus^[6]
• Saints Mamas, Pachomius, and Hilarion, monks^[7]
• Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier (Barbaruldier), Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea (362)^[8]
• St. Benedicta, virgin, mystic and nun, lived in a convent founded by St. Galla in Rome (6th c.)^[2][9]
• Saint Edbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698)^[2][10]
• Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino (ca.747)^[11]
• Martyr Barbarus in Thessaly, the former robber (9th c.)^[8][12]
• Venerable Micah, the disciple of the Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1385)^[13]
• Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th c.):^{[8][13][note 1]}

• Romilus of Ravanica; Romanus of Djunisa; Sisoes of Sinai and Sisojevac; Martyrius of Rukumije; Gregory of Gornjak; Zosimas of Tuman; and Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos)

• Saint Seraphim of Mt. Domvu (Seraphim of Livadeia) (1602)^[15]
• Saint Job of Pochaev, abbot and wonderworker (1651)^[13][16]

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1238) of Saint Sava, first archbishop of Serbia (1235)^[8]
• Translation of the relics (1675) of Saint Pachomius of Nerekhta (1384)^[8]
• Birthday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II^[17]

Notes

1. ^ These are commemorated on May 19 in the Greek Menaion.^[14]

References

1. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰὼβ ὁ Προφήτης ὁ Δίκαιος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} May 6, The Roman Martyrology.
3. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἡλιόδωρος καὶ Βενοῦστος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς μαρτυρήσαντες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δάναξ, Μέσιρος καὶ Θερίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημητρίων ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Δονάτος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. ^ Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἱλαρίων, Μάμας καὶ Παχώμιος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. ^ ^{a b c d e} May 6/19, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
9. ^ Ἡ Ὁσία Βενεδίκτη ἡ Ρωμαία. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐαντβέρτος ἐκ Σκωτίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. ^ May 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
12. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Βάρβαρος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. ^ ^{a b c} May 19 / May 6 , HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
14. ^ Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ρωμύλος, Ρωμανός, Νέστωρ, Σισώης, Γρηγόριος, Νικόδημος καὶ Κύριλλος οἱ Σιναΐτες. 19 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεραφείμ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰὼβ ἐκ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. ^ Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints (POMOG)

Sources

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints (POMOG)
• May 6/19, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 19 / May 6 , HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 6, The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• 6 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.