May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Sep 30, 2024

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

Great Virgin-martyr Irene of Thessaloniki (4th century)

Martyrs Irenaeus, Pellegrinus and Irene, at Thessaloniki (284–305)

Martyrs Neophytus, Gaius, and Gaianus

Saint Eulogius the Confessor, bishop of Edessa (c. 386)

Saints Martin and Heraclius, of Illyria (4th century)

Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, bishop of Madytos on the Hellespont (c. 990)

Martyr Jovinian, the lector of St. Peregrine of Auxerre (c. 304)

Saint Brito (Britonius) (386)

Saint Nectarius of Vienne, bishop of Vienne (c. 445)

Saint Nicetus of Vienne, fifteenth bishop of Vienne (c. 449)

Saint Hilarion, Archbishop of Arles (449)

Saint Geruntius of Milan (470)

Martyr Crescentiana of Rome (5th century)

Saint Hydrock (Hydroc) of Cornwall (5th century)

Saint Sacerdos of Saguntum (c. 560)

Saint Waldrada, first abbess of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains in Metz in France (c. 620)

Saint Maurontius of Douai (Maurontus, Mauront), founded monastery at Breuil-sur-lys near Douai, of which he is the patron-saint (701)

Saint Echa of Crayke, (Etha), Anglo-Saxon priest and monk-hermit at Crayke, near York, England (767)

Saints Barlaam of Serpukhov, and Gideon of Serpukhov (1377)

New Monk-martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1426)

Saint Adrian, abbot of Monza Monastery (1619)

New Hieromartyr Nicholas, priest (1919)

New Hieromartyr Platon of Banja Luka (Platon Jovanovic) (1941) (see also: April 22)

Translation of the relics (980) of Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)

Uncovering of the relics (1613) of Saint James of Zheleznoborov, Abbot of Zhelezny Bor (1442)

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Inexhaustible Cup" (1878)

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