May 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
May 11 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 13
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 25 by Old Calendarists
Saints
- Saint Domitilla the martyr (ca.81-96)[1][2]
- Saints Nereus and Achilleus the martyrs (100)[2][3]
- Saint Philip of Agira the Hieromartyr (103)[2][4][note 1]
- Martyr Pancratius of Rome (304)[2][5][6]
- Martyr Dionysius (Denis), uncle of St. Pancratius (304)[2][7]
- Saint Dracontius, Bishop of Nicaea (ca.1st-3rd. c.)[8][note 2]
- Saint Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis and Metropolitan of Cyprus (403)[2][9]
- Saint Calliope (Callitropos), nun, sister of St. Epiphanius of Cyprus.[10]
- Saint Sabinus, Archbishop of Cyprus (successor of St. Epiphanius to the Cypriot cathedra) (5th c.)[11][12]
- Saint Polybius, Bishop of Cyprus, Wonderworker (5th c.)[11][13]
- Saint Díoma, teacher of St Declan of Ardmore, patron-saint of Kildimo in Co. Limerick in Ireland (5th c.)[7]
- Saint Modoald, Archbishop of Trier, related by blood and united by friendship with most of the saints of the Merovingian period (640)[2][7]
- Saint Rictrudis, Abbess of Marchiennes Abbey in Flanders (688)[7][note 3]
- Saint Theophanes, Archbishop of Cyprus (7th c.[14])[15][note 4]
- Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (740)[2][16]
- Saint Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury (805)[7]
- Venerable Theodore of Kythera, ascetic (922)[17][18]
- Saint Euthemius (Euthymius), Patriarch of Jerusalem (ca.1084[19])[20][note 5]
- Saint Nikitas the Sinaite[21][note 6]
- New Martyr John of Serres (15th c.)[11][22]
- Saint Theophanes, Bishop of Solea (Solia), Cyprus, later a hermit in the Troodos Mountains; the Outpourer of Myrrh (1550)[23][note 7]
- Monk Dorotheus, (disciple of St. Dionysius of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra) (1622)[11][note 8]
- Venerable Dionysius of Radonezh, Archimandrite of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra(1633)[11][26][27]
- New Martyr John of Wallachia, at Constantinople (1662)[11][28][29][note 9]
- Saint Anthony (Medvedev) of Radonezh, Archimandrite of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1877)[11][30]
- Repose of Saint Nectarius (Tikhonov) of Optina (1928)[31][note 10]
- New Martyr Abbess Athanasia (Lepeshkin), of the Smolensk Hodigitria Convent near Moscow (1931)[11][32]
- New Hieromartyr Peter, priest (1937)[32]
Other commemorations
Notes
- ^ From the Roman Martyrology:
- "At Agirone in Sicily, St. Philip, a priest who was sent to that island by the Roman Pontiff, and converted to Christ a great portion of it. His sanctity is particularly manifested by the deliverance of persons possessed."
- ^ Note, there is a "Dracontius of Pergamum" who attended the Council of Constantinople (360).
- ^ Born in Gascony in France, she married St Adalbald, by whom she had four children - all saints, Maurontius, Eusebia, Clotsindis and Adalsindis. After her husband's repose she became a nun and founded the convent of Marchiennes in the north of France.
- ^ His memory is preserved in the Codex Hierosolymitanus of the 11th-12th c.[15]
- ^ His name does not appear in the Synaxaria and the Menaia, but is preserved in the Codex Hierosolymitanus. The Church also observes his feast day on November 7.[20]
- ^ The feast day of the Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) 14th c., is observed on May 6.
- ^ One Orthodox calendar shows his feast day as May 17.[24]
- ^ Saint Dorotheus is commemorated together with Saint Hilarion (monk) on May 23 in the Great Synaxaristes. (Greek Menaion).[25]
- ^ Also John Valaha of Romania or Ioan Valahul (Românul).
- ^ Saint Nectarius' is venerated on April 29, and with all the Optina Elders on October 11.
References
Sources
- May 12/25. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- May 25 / May 12. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
- May 12. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
- Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
- May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
- May 12. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
- May 12. The Roman Martyrology.
Greek Sources