May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 20.

Saints

• Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Moura (Maura), at Antinoöpolis, Egypt (304)
• Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning (285-305) <small>(see also April 29)</small>
• Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Byzantium (313) <small>(see also June 10)</small>
• Great Martyr Xenia the Wonderworker, of Kalamata, Peloponnesus (318)
• Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire
• Saint Mamai, Catholicos of Georgia (744)
• Saints Michael and Arsenius of Ulompo, Georgia (9th century)
• Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, Peloponnese (925)
• Saint Oecumenius (Ecumenius, Ekoumenios) the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trikala (Tricca) (10th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (c. 106-115)
• Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (c. 113-119)
• Saint Juvenal of Narni (c. 369/377)
• Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th century)
• Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of Saint Columba (563)
• Saint Adalsindis, sister of Saint Waldalenus, founder of the Monastery of Bèze in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze (c. 680)
• Saint Æthelwine (Elwin, Ethelwin), Bishop of Lindsey (c. 700)
• Saint Philip of Worms (770) (Philip of Zell)
• Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Far Caves Monastery, and Founder of Cenobitic Monasticism in Russia (1074)
• Saint Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th century)
• Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow.
• Saint Gregory, Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott of Kamennoi Monastery (Monastery of the Transfiguration) at Kubenski Lake, in Vologda province) (1416)
• Martyr the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)
• Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th century)
• Saints Silas (1783), Paisius and Nathan (1784), monks of Putna Monastery, Moldova.
• New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821)
• Saint Irodion (Ionescu) of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Vilensky, Priest of Semyonovskoe (1918)
• New Hieromartyr Vladimir Izvolsky, Archpriest, of Manchuria (1930)
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Benevolsky, Priest of Alma-Ata (1941)

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1011) of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion (953)
• Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople, to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)
• "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)
• Finding of the relics (2018) of Saint John (Vilenskiy) of Yaroslavl (1918) <small>(see also: October 28)</small>

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• May 3/16, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
• May 16 / May 3, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• May 3. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• AN ENGLISH ORTHODOX CALENDAR
• May 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 3, The Roman Martyrology.
• 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. 125–126.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 3 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 3 ΜαΐοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 16 мая (3 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 3 мая (ст.ст.) 16 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).