May 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 13 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 15

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 27 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Martyrs Justa, Justina and Henedina, in Sardinia (c.130)^[1][2]
• Martyr Maximus (250)^[3][4]
• Martyr Isidore of Chios (251)^[5]
• Saint Pontius of Cimiez (Pons de Cimiez), martyred in Cimella (Cimiez) near Nice, whose relics gave his name to the town of Saint-Pons. (ca.258)^{[1][2][note 1]}
• Saints Alexander, Barbaras, and Acolythus (Acolouthus), martyred at the Church of St Irene (Holy Peace), near the sea in Constantinople^[6]
• Martyrs Aristotle and Leandros^[7]
• Hieromartyr Therapont, Bishop of Cyprus (3rd c.)^{[8][9][note 2]}
• Saint Boniface of Tarsus, martyr (307)^[1][2]
• Saint Aprunculus (Apruncule), first bishop of Langres, later of Clermont, Gaul (ca. 488)^[3]
• Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th c.)^{[3][10][note 3]}
• Saint Boniface, Bishop of Ferentino in Tuscany (6th c.)^[1]
• Saint Carthage (Carthach Mochuda) the Younger, founder and first abbot of Lismore (637)^[1][14]
• Saint Erembert, Bishop of Toulouse (657)^[1]
• Saint Tuto (Totto), monk and Abbot of St Emmeram in Regensburg in Germany, where he later became bishop (930)^[1]
• Saint Hallvard, Of the royal family of Norway, Patron-saint of Oslo, martyr (1043)^[1]
• Saint Nicetas, Bishop of Novgorod and recluse of the Kiev Caves (1108)^{[15][note 4]}
• Patriarch Leontius II of Jerusalem (1190)^[18][19]
• Saint Isidore of Rostov, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1474)^[9][20]
• New Martyr Mark of Crete, at Smyrna (1643)^[9][21]
• New Martyr John of Bulgaria (Raiko-John of Shumena), the goldsmith (1802)^[3][9][22]
• Saint Andrew, abbot of Raphael (Tobolsk) (1820)^[3][23]
• New Hiero-confessor Matthew, Hieromonk of Yaransk in Vyatka (1927)^[3][23]
• New Hieromartyr Peter, priest (1939)^[23]

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles (1609),^[3] of:

• Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1,000 laymen of the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery,^[24]
• Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of the St. Nicholas Monastery (Kostroma)^[25]

• Synaxis of the Yaroslavsk (Pechersk) Icon of the Mother of God (1823)^[26][27][28]
• First uncovering of the relics (1846) of Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783)^{[3][23][note 5]}

Notes

1. ^ Not to be confused with Pontius of Carthage (ca.260), who is commemorated on March 8.
2. ^ Not to be confused with Therapont of Sardis (+259); or Therapont of White Lake (+1426). Note however, that the Orthodox Calendar at Pravoslavie.ru gives St. Therapont's date as (+632).
3. ^ Not to be confused with the 4th century Saint Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, in Egypt, Confessor (4th c.), which is commemorated on March 21st.^[11][12][13]
4. ^ See also: January 31,^[16] the day of his repose, and April 30, the day of the Uncovering of his Relics (1558).^[17]
5. ^ This is observed on May 15 in the Greek Synaxarion.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} May 14. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
2. ^ ^{a b c} May 14. The Roman Martyrology.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} May 14/27. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
4. ^ Martyr Maximus. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
5. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Μάρτυρας ἐν Χίῳ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀλέξανδρος, Βάρβαρος καὶ Ἀκόλουθος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀριστοτέλης καὶ Λέανδρος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεράποντας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Κύπρου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. ^ ^{a b c d} May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
10. ^ Venerable Serapion of Egypt. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
11. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεραπίων ὁ Σιδώνιος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. ^ March 21. The Roman Martyrology.
13. ^ Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). St. Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, in Egypt, Confessor. The Lives of the Saints. 1866. (Bartleby.com).
14. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Καρτέγιος Ἐπίσκοπος Λίσμορ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικήτας ὁ Ἔγκλειστος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικήτας ἐκ Κιέβου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. ^ Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Νικήτα Ἀρχιεπισκόπου Νόβγκοροντ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Λεόντιος Πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. ^ St Leontius the Patriarch of Jerusalem. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
20. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Θαυματουργός ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν σαλός. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
21. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Μᾶρκος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
22. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Βούλγαρος, ὁ χρυσοχόος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. ^ ^{a b c d} May 27 / May 14. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
24. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ Μάρτυρες μοναχοὶ καὶ λαϊκοί. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
25. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Δανιὴλ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ Μάρτυρες μοναχοὶ καὶ λαϊκοί. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
26. ^ Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Ἰαροσλάβλ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
27. ^ The Yaroslavsk (Pechersk) Icon of the Mother of God. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
28. ^ Icon of the Mother of God of Chelnsk and Pskov Caves. OCA - Feasts and Saints.

Sources

• May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
• May 14/27. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 27 / May 14. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 14. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May 14. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 14. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• 14 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.