May 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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May 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 5

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 17 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

  • Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Tarsus in Asia Minor
  • Hieromartyr Silvanus of Gaza, bishop
  • Hieromartyr Albian (Olbian), Bishop of Anaea in Asia Minor
  • Hieromartyr Erasmus of Formia, bishop in Campania
  • Martyrs Aphrodisius, Leontius, Anthony, Valerian, Macrobius, and others, monks of Palestine
  • Saint Nicephorus of Medikion, abbot
  • Saint Nicephorus of Mount Athos
  • Saint Athanasios of Corinth, bishop
  • The Alfanov brothers: Saints Nicetas, Cyril, Nicephorus, Clement, and Isaac of Novgorod, founders of the Sokolnitzki Monastery
  • Saint Hilary the Wonderworker of the desert

[edit] Other commemorations