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May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 23

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

Saints

  • Righteous Melchizedek, King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) (c. 2000 BC)
  • Martyr Sophia the Healer, a physician, by beheading.
  • Martyr Marcellus, by being placed in molten lead.
  • Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), by being dragged by horses. <small>(see also: March 10)</small>
  • Martyr Basiliscus of Comana (c. 308) <small>(see also: March 3)</small>
  • Hieromartyrs Donatus, Bishop of Thmuis, the priest Macarius, and the deacon Theodore (c. 316)
  • Saint John Vladimir, King of Serbia, Martyr, Wonderworker, whose relics are at Elbasan (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 Caernarfon (Elen Luyddog, lit. "Helen of the Hosts"), daughter of a Romano-British ruler, wife of Emperor Magnus Maximus, and a founder of churches in Wales (late 4th-century)
  • Saint Helen of Auxerre (c. 418)
  • Saint Julia of Corsica the martyr, who was crucified (440)
  • 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 (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, priest of Prussa (1802)
  • Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi, Novgorod, Wonderworker (1540)
  • New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos (1803) <small>(see also: April 14)</small>
  • Venerable Monk-martyr Paul of Mt. Athos, at Tripolis, Peloponnesus (1818)

New martyrs and confessors

  • Saint Innocent (Yastrebov), Archbishop of Astrakhan, Confessor (1928)
  • New Hieromartyr Maxim (Zhizhilenko), Bishop of Serpukhov (1931)
  • New Hieromartyr Michael Borisov, Archpriest, of Uglich (1942)

Other commemorations

  • Synaxis of the Cyprus Icon ("Sophianois" Icon) of the Most Holy Mother of God.
  • "Surety of Sinners" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, Korets (1622)
  • Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1816)
  • Repose of Eldress Macrina of Volos (Macrina of Portaria) (1995)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

  • May 22/June 4. Orthodox Calendar (ORTHOCHRISTIAN.COM).
  • June 4 / May 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH(A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • May 22. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • May 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • May 22. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 22 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 22 ΜαΐοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

  • 4 июня (22 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 22 мая (ст.ст.) 4 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).