May 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 10 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 12

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 24 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For May 11th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 28.

Saints

• Martyr Evellius, under Nero (66)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Maximus, Bassus, and Fabius (284-305)^[2][3]
• Hieromartyr Mocius (Mucius), presbyter of Amphipolis in Macedonia, beheaded in Byzantium (288)^{[4][note 2]}
• Martyr Armodius^{[5][note 3]}
• Martyr Acacius of Lower Moesia^[6]
• Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles and Enlighteners of the Slavs (869, 885)^[7][8]
• Saints Clement of Ohrid, Sabbas, Angelarius, Gorazd, and Naum of Preslav — Disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius and missionaries of the Slavs, Wonderworkers and Equal-to-the-Apostles (9th century)^{[9][note 4]}
• Saint Rostislav the Prince of Great Moravia, Confessor of the Faith (870)^[6][8]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Anthimus of Rome, and martyrs Sisinius the deacon with Diocletius and Florentius (disciples of St. Anthimus), (284-305)^[2][11][12]
• Saint Principia of Rome, a holy virgin in Rome and disciple of St Marcella (420)^[12]
• Saint Mammertus, Archbishop of Vienne (475)^[12][13]
• Saint Possessor of Verdun, Bishop of Verdun, he and his flock were greatly troubled by the barbarian invasions of Franks, Vandals and Goths (c. 486)^[12]
• Saint Tudy (Tudinus, Tegwin, Thetgo), a disciple of St Brioc in Brittany (5th century)^[12]
• Saint Credan of Cornwall, hogherd.^[14]
• Saint Gangulphus (760)^[12]
• Saint Fremund of Dunstable, Anglo-Saxon hermit, killed by his kinsman Oswy with the help of Danish invaders who had also murdered King Edmund (866)^[12]
• Saint Odo of Cluny, the second Abbot of Cluny (942)^[12]
• Saint Mayeul (Majolus, Maieul), Abbot of Cluny (994)^[12][6]
• Saint Odilo of Cluny (1049)^[12]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Martyrs Olympia, abbess of Mytilene, and nun Euphrosyne (1235)^[6][15]
• Saint Sophronius of the Kiev Caves, recluse (13th century)^{[6][16][17][note 5]}
• Saint Nicodemus of Pec, Archbishop of Serbia (1324)^[6][18]
• Hieromartyr Joseph, first Metropolitan of Astrakhan (1672)^[6][19][20]
• New Martyrs Dioscorus (Dioscorides)^[21] and Argyrus (Argyrus, Argyres)^[22] of Thessalonica (1806/1808)^[6][23]
• Blessed Christopher of Georgia (Christesias), monk at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at the David Gareja monastery complex, "The Thebaid of Georgia" (1771/1871)^{[24][25][note 6]}
• Saint Theophylact, bishop of Stavropol and Ekaterinodar (1872)^[26]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Michael Belorossov, priest (1920)^[8][23]
• New Hieromartyr Alexander (Petrovsky), Archbishop of Kharkov (1940)^[8][27][28]

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Founding of Constantinople (330) as Capital of the Roman Empire^[29][30]
• Consecration of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev.^[31]

Icon Gallery

See also

• Pashons 3 (Coptic Orthodox liturgics) (May 11)

Notes

References

Sources

• May 11/24. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 24 / May 11. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• The Lives of the Saints - May 11 OCA
• May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
• May 11. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 11. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 11 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 11 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian sources

• (Russian) 11 мая (ст.ст.) 24 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).