May 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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May 13 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 15

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 27 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyr Isidore of Chios
• Saint Isidore of Rostov, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker
• Martyr Maximus
• Saint Serapion of Egypt, monk
• Saint Aprunculus, Bishop of Clermont in Gaul
• Saint Nicetas, Bishop of Novgorod and recluse of the Kiev Caves
• Martyr Mark of Crete, at Smyrna
• Martyr John of Bulgaria
• Saints Alexander, Barbaras, and Acolythus, martyred at the Church of Holy Peace, near the sea in Constantinople
• Patriarch Leontius I of Jerusalem

[edit] Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the martyrdom, by the Poles, of Abbot Anthony with roughly 40 monks and 1,000 laymen of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery, and Abbot Daniel with roughly 30 monks and 200 laymen of St. Nicholas Monastery (1609)
• First opening of the relics of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1846)