May 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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May 17—Eastern Orthodox Church calendar—May 19

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 31 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra, and with him seven virgin-martyrs: Alexandra, Tecusa, Claudia, Phaine, Euphraisa, Matrona, and Julia
• Martyrs Peter and Dionysius under Decius; also those who were not martyred but suffered under Decius: Andrew, Paul, Christina, Heraclius, Paulinus, and Benedimus
• Martyrs Symeon, Isaac, and Bachtisius of Persia
• Martyr Euphrasia of Nicaea
• Martyr Theodota at Ancyra
• Martyrs David and Tarechan of Georgia
• Martyr Julian
• Patriarch Stephen the New of Constantinople
• Hieromartyr Pope Theodore I of Rome
• Saint Anastaso of Lukada
• Saint Martinian of Areovinchus, monk

[edit] Other commemorations

• Repose of Archimandrite Macarius, missionary to the Altay region in Siberia (1847)
• Blessed Philip, founder of the Gethsemane Caves Skete of St. Sergius’ Lavra (1869)