May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 22 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Prophet Isaiah (8th c. b.c.)^[1][2]
• Saint Beatus, Apostle of Switzerland (2nd c.)^[3]
• Martyr Christopher of Lycia (ca.249-251),^[4][5] and with him:

• Martyrs Callinica (Callinike of Lycia),^[6] and Aquilina (Aquilina of Lycia)^[7] (ca.249-251)^[8]

• Martyrs Epimachus and Gordianus of Rome, in the persecution of Decius (ca.249-251)^[9]
• Saint Maximus III of Jerusalem, Patriarch (350)^[10]
• Saint John of Châlon, third Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône in France (ca.475)^[3]
• Saint Gerontius, bishop of Cervia near Ravenna in Italy, martyr (ca. 501)^[3][11]
• Saint Constantine, Martyr, Scottish king who gave up his crown and joined Saint David's monastery at Menevia, Wales (576)^[12]
• Saint Sanctan, Bishop of Kill-da-Les and Kill-na-Sanctan near Dublin in Ireland (6th c.)^[3]
• Saint Shio of Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th c.)^[13][14]
• Monk-martyr Nicholas of Vouneni, in Thessaly (901)^[15]
• Saint Vincent, Abbot of St Peter de Montes in Spain, a disciple and successor of St. Gennadius of Astorga (ca. 950)^[3]
• Saint Gregory, Bishop of Ostia (ca.1044)^[3]
• Saint Dmitry Donskoy, Prince of Moscow (1389)^{[16][note 1]}
• New Hieromartyr Methodius of Amaria, Crete (1793)^[19]
• Saint Joseph (Litovkin) of Optina (1911)^[20][21]
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius, priest (1938)^[22]
• New Hieromartyr Basil, priest (1939)^[22]
• New Martyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya) Ukraine.^{[23][24][note 2]}

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1087) of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (ca.345) from Myra to Bari^[11][26]
• Zaraysk Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1225)^[22]
• Translation of the relics (1775) of Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk (1690)^[22][27]

Notes

1. ^ The Great Synaxaristes also has another entry for Saint Dmitry Donskoy on May 19,^[17] which is confirmed by an entry on the Calendar of a Russian Orthodox parish similarly for May 19.^[18]
2. ^ The Great Synaxaristes also has a longer entry for the New Hieromartyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya), Ukraine, on May 19.^[25]

References

1. ^ Ὁ Προφήτης Ἡσαΐας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. ^ Prophet Isaiah. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} May 9. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
4. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Χριστοφόρος ὁ Μεγαλομάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. ^ Martyr Christopher of Lycia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
6. ^ Martyr Callinike of Lycia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
7. ^ Martyr Aquilina of Lycia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
8. ^ Οἱ Ἁγίες Ἀκυλίνα καὶ Καλλινίκη οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐπίμαχος καὶ Γορδιανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος Πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. ^ ^{a b} May 9. The Roman Martyrology.
12. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Κωνσταντίνος ὁ Μάρτυρας βασιλέας τῶν Σκώτων, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Σίος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. ^ Repose of the Venerable Shio the Anchorite of Georgia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
15. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος ὁ ἐν Βουνένοις. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ μεγάλος πρίγκιπας τῆς Μόσχας, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ μεγάλος Πρίγκιπας. 19 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. ^ June 1 / May 19. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
19. ^ Rev. Oeconomos Christopher Klitou. FEASTS AND SAINTS - 9th MAY. The Orthodox Pages.
20. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωσὴφ τῆς Ὄπτινα. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
21. ^ Venerable Joseph of Optina. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
22. ^ ^{a b c d} May 22 / May 9, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
23. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νεομάρτυρες τῆς Σλομπόντσκαγια Οὐκρανίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
24. ^ New Martyrs and Confessors of the Soviet Yoke, Saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
25. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νεομάρτυρες ἐν Σλομπόντσκαγια Οὐκρανίας. 19 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
26. ^ Translation of the relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker from Myra to Bari. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
27. ^ Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).

Sources

• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• May 9, OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May 9/22, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 22 / May 9, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• New Martyrs and Confessors of the Soviet Yoke, Saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
• May 9. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 9. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• 9 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.