May 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 3

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 19.

Saints

• Martyrs Hesperos (Exuperius) and Zoe, and their sons Cyriacos and Theodoulos, at Attalia (c. 124)
• Saint Jordan the Wonderworker
• Saint Sabbas, Bishop of Dafnousia
• Saint Boris-Michael, Prince and baptizer of Bulgaria, Equal-to-the-Apostles (907)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Valentine, Bishop of Genoa in Italy c. 295-307, (c. 307)
• Saint Germanus of Normandy, converted by St Germanus of Auxerre, martyred in France (c. 460)
• Hieromartyrs Vindemialis, Eugene and Longinus, Bishops in North Africa martyred by the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (c. 485)
• Saint Neachtain, a relative of St Patrick of Ireland at whose repose he was present (5th century)
• Saint Ultan, Irish monk, brother of Saints Fursey and Foillan (657)
• Saint Waldebert (Walbert, Gaubert), abbot of Luxeuil in France (c. 668)
• Saint Bertinus the Younger, Benedictine monk at Sithin, in France (699)
• Saint Felix of Seville, deacon and martyr in Seville, Spain, under the Muslims.
• Martyr Wiborada, anchoress of St. Gallen Abbey in Germany (926)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Athanasius of Syandem and Valaam (c. 1550)
• Saint Serapion (Sysoev), Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1653)
• Saint Athanasius III Patelaros, Patriarch of Constantinople and Wonderworker of Lubensk (Lubny), (1654)
• Saint Jacob (Putneanul), Metropolitan of Moldova (1778)
• Blessed Basil of Kadom, fool-for-Christ (1848)
• Saint Matrona the Blind, the Righteous Wonderworker of Moscow (1952) <small>(see also: February 23 - Finding of relics)</small>

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria (Athanasios the Great) (373)
• Translation of the relics (1072 and 1115) of the holy passion-bearers Boris and Gleb (in holy baptism Romanus and David) (1015)
• Icon of the Theotokos of Putivilsk (1238, 1635)
• Repose of Eldress Theodosia (Kosorotikhina) of Skopin, Ryazan (2014)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• May 2/15, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
• May 15, 2011 / May 2, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• May 2. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp.&nbsp;124–125.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp.&nbsp;192–193.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 2 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 2 ΜαΐοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 15 мая (2 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 2 мая (ст.ст.) 15 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).