May 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 10 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 12

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 24 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Martyr Evellius, under Nero (66)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Maximus, Bassus, and Fabius (284-305)^[2][3]
• Hieromartyr Anthimus of Rome, and martyrs Sisinius the deacon with Diocletius and Florentius (disciples of St. Anthimus), (284-305)^[2][4][5]
• Hieromartyr Mocius (Mucius), presbyter of Amphipolis in Macedonia, beheaded in Byzantium (288)^{[6][note 1]}
• Martyr Armodius^{[7][note 2]}
• Martyr Acacius of Lower Moesia^[8]
• Saint Principia of Rome, a holy virgin in Rome and disciple of St Marcella (420)^[5]
• Saint Mammertus, Archbishop of Vienne (475)^[5][9]
• Saint Possessor of Verdun, Bishop of Verdun, he and his flock were greatly troubled by the barbarian invasions of Franks, Vandals and Goths (ca.486)^[5]
• Saint Tudy (Tudinus, Tegwin, Thetgo), a disciple of St Brioc in Brittany (5th c.)^[5]
• Saint Gangulphus (760)^[5]
• Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles and enlighteners of the Slavs (869, 885)^[10]
• Saints Clement of Ohrid, Sabbas, Angelarius, Gorazd, and Naum of Preslav — Disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius and missionaries of the Slavs, Wonderworkers and Equal-to-the-Apostles (9th c.)^{[11][note 3]}
• Saint Fremund of Dunstable, Anglo-Saxon hermit, killed by his kinsman Oswy with the help of Danish invaders who had also murdered King Edmund (866)^[5]
• Saint Rostislav the Prince of Great Moravia, Confessor of the Faith (870)^[8]
• Saint Odo of Cluny, the second Abbot of Cluny (942)^[5]
• Saint Mayeul (Majolus, Maieul), Abbot of Cluny (994)^[5][8]
• Saint Odilo of Cluny (1049)^[5]
• Martyrs Olympia, abbess of Mytilene, and nun Euphrosyne (1235)^[8][13]
• Saint Sophronius of the Kiev Caves, recluse (13th c.)^{[8][14][15][note 4]}
• Saint Nicodemus of Pec, Archbishop of Serbia (1324)^[8][16]
• Hieromartyr Joseph, first Metropolitan of Astrakhan (1672)^[8][17][18]
• New Martyrs Dioscorus (Dioscorides)^[19] and Argyrus (Argyrus, Argyres)^[20] of Thessalonica (1806/1808)^[8][21]
• Blessed Christopher of Georgia (called Christesias), monk at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at the David Gareja monastery complex, "The Thebaid of Georgia" (1771/1871)^{[22][23][note 5]}
• Saint Theophylact, bishop of Stavropol and Ekaterinodar (1872)^[24]
• New Hieromartyr Michael, priest (1920)^[21]
• New Hieromartyr Alexander (Petrovsky), archbishop of Kharkov (1940)^[25][26]

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Founding of Constantinople (330) as Capital of the Roman Empire^[27][28]

Notes

1. ^ The Roman Martyrology lists his feast day as May 13.
2. ^ The Holy martyr Armodius is unknown in the Synaxaristes and Menaia, however his memory is preserved in an 11th c. Codex from the Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Greek: μονῆς Κρυπτοφέρρης) near Rome.
3. ^ See also July 27 (Slavonic Menaion) for these 5 Saints.^[12]
4. ^ See also March 11.
5. ^ The Greek Synaxarion gives his date as 1871. Slavonic sources give the date of 1771.

References

1. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐβέλλιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. ^ ^{a b c} May 11. The Roman Martyrology.
3. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάξιμος, Βάσσος καὶ Φάβιος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἄνθιμος καὶ Σισίνιος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς Διόκλητος καὶ Φλωρέντιος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} May 11. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
6. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Μώκιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἁρμόδιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} May 11/24. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
9. ^ Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). St. Mammertus, Archbishop of Vienne, Confessor. The Lives of the Saints. Volume V: May. 1866.
10. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κύριλλος καὶ Μεθόδιος οἱ Ἰσαπόστολοι καὶ Φωτιστὲς τῶν Σλάβων. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κλήμης, Σάββας, Ἀγγελάριος, Γοράσδος καὶ Ναοὺμ οἱ Θαυματουργοὶ Ἰσαπόστολοι. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. ^ Equal of the Apostles Clement of Ochrid the Bishop of Greater Macedonia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
13. ^ Οἱ Ἁγίες Ὀλυμπία καὶ Εὐφροσύνη οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Σωφρόνιος ὁ Ἔγκλειστος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. ^ Venerable Sophronius the Recluse of the Kiev Far Caves. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
16. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόδημος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σερβίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. ^ St Joseph the Metropolitan of Astrakhan. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
19. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Διόσκορος ὁ Νέος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀργύριος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ἐπανομίτης. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
21. ^ ^{a b} May 24 / May 11. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
22. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Χριστόφορος ἐκ Γεωργίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. ^ Blessed Christopher, called Christesia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
24. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοφύλακτος Ἐπίσκοπος Σταυρουπόλεως. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
25. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Χάρκωβ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
26. ^ Hiero-Martyr Alexander (Petrovsky), Archbishop of Kharkov. Transl. from the Russian by Maria Ashot. Holy Trinity Orthodox Mission. 2001.
27. ^ Μνήμη ἐγκαινίων τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
28. ^ Commemoration of the Founding of Constantinople. OCA - Feasts and Saints.

Sources

• May 11/24. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 24 / May 11. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 11. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
• May 11. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 11. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• 11 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ