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May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 23

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 9.

Feasts

  • Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (381)

    • Saints

  • Righteous Melchizedek, King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) (c. 2000 BC)
  • Martyr Sophia the Healer.
  • Martyr Marcellus, by being placed in molten lead.
  • Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), by being dragged by horses.
  • Martyr Basiliscus of Comana (c. 285-305)
  • Saint Donatus of Thmuis, Bishop and Martyr (316)
  • Saint John Vladimir, King of Serbia, Martyr, Wonderworker (1015)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Ausonius, first Bishop of Angoulême (1st or 3rd century)
  • Saint Marcian of Ravenna, Bishop and Confessor (c. 127)
  • Martyrs Castus and Emilius, by fire, in Carthage (250)
  • Martyrs Timothy, Faustinus and Venustus, in Rome, under Julian the Apostate (362)
  • Saint Helen of Carnarvon (Elen Luyddog, Helen of Caernarfon), Princess, a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales, and wife of Emperor Magnus Clemens Maximus (383-388)
  • Saint Helen of Auxerre (c. 418)
  • Saint Julia of Corsica the martyr, who was crucified (5th century)
  • Saint Quiteria the virgin-martyr, in Spain (5th century)
  • Saint Romanus of Subiaco (Romanus of Auxerre), ascetic who ministered to Saint Benedict of Nursia (560)
  • Saint Fulk (c. 600)
  • Saint Boethian of Pierrepont (near Laon), Irish, Benedictine monk, martyred in France (7th century)
  • Saint Conall (Conald, Coel), of Inniskeel (Inniscoel, Innis-coel), County Donegal, Abbot of the island monastery of Inniskeel, where there is a holy well dedicated to him (7th century)
  • Saint John of Parma, abbot of Saint John's at Parma from 973 to c. 982, then under Cluniac observance (c. 982)
  • Saint Bobo (Beuvon), hermit (c. 985)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Kali of Asia Minor (c. 14th century)
  • New Hieromartyr Zachariah of Prussa (1802)
  • Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi (Novgorod), Wonderworker (1540)
  • New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos (1803)
  • Venerable Monk-martyr Paul of Mt. Athos, at Tripolis, Peloponnesus (1818)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Michael Borisov, priest (1942)

    • Other commemorations

  • Synaxis of the Cyprus Icon ("Sophianois" Icon) of the Most Holy Mother of God.
  • Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1816)
  • Repose of Eldress Macrina of Volos (1995)

    • References

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