May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 6

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For May 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 22.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

New Martyrs and Confessors

Other commemorations

Icon Gallery

Notes

  1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. The only evidence for the life of Saint Crescentiana is a church in Rome dedicated to her that was already extant at the time of Pope Symmachus (498-514) (Benedictines).[11]
  3. St Barlaam and his holy icon are venerated in Ukraine by those afflicted with the inclination to drinking; their friends and relatives also invoke his intercession on their behalf. [13]

References

  1. Ἡ Ἁγία Εἰρήνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  2. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εἰρηναῖος, Περεγρίνος καὶ Εἰρήνη οἱ Μάρτυρες ἐκ Θεσσαλονίκης, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 May 5. The Roman Martyrology.
  4. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γαϊανός, Γάιος καὶ Νεόφυτος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  5. May 5/18, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  6. SAINT MARTIN AND SAINT HERACLIUS (From the Prologue). St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.
  7. Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Μυροβλύτης Ἐπίσκοπος Μαδύτου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 8.11 May 5. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  9. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἱλάριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀρελάτης. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  10. Ὁ Ἅγιος Γερόντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Μιλάνου, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  11. Katherine I. Rabenstein. May 5. Saint of the Day - St. Patrick Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.
  12. Οἱ Ὅσιοι Βαρλαὰμ καὶ Γεδεών, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  13. Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
  14. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Νέᾳ Μάκρῃ Ἀττικῆς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  15. Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀδριανὸς ἐκ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  16. 16.0 16.1 May 18, 2011 / May 5, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
  17. Ὁ Ἅγιος Πλάτων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀχρίδος, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  18. Blair, John (2002). "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints". In Thacker, Aland and Sharpe, Richard. Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p.512.
  19. 19.0 19.1 May 5, OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  20. Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Σιέρπουχωφ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

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