May 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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May 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 21 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, the "beloved disciple" of the Lord
• Saint Arsenius the Great
• Saint Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ
• Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves
• Saint Hierax of Egypt
• Saint Macarius of Ghent, archbishop
• Saint Emilia, mother of saints Macrina, Basil the Great, and Gregory of Nyssa
• Saint Milles the Melode, monk

[edit] Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Mother of God of Cassiopia
• Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Michael of Valaam (1934)
• Repose of Blessed Basiliscus of Uglich (1863)