May 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 23.

Saints

• Righteous Job the Long-suffering (c. 2000-1500 B.C.)
• Martyrs Danax, Mesirus (Mesiurs), and Therin
• Martyrs Demetrius, and Donatus
• Saints Mamas, Pachomius, and Hilarion, monks
• Martyrs Cyria, Caleria (Valeria), and Marcia, of Caesarea in Palestine (304)
• Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier (Barbaruldier), Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea (362)
• Martyr Barbarus in Epirus, the former robber (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus and seventy-five others in Africa (284–305)
• St. Benedicta, virgin, mystic and nun, lived in a convent founded by St. Galla in Rome (6th century)
• Saint Edbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698)
• Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino (c. 747)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saint

• Venerable Micah (Micheas), the disciple of the Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1385)
• Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century): <small>(see also: May 19)</small>

* Romilus of Ravanica; Romanus of Djunisa; Sisoes of Sinai and Sisojevac; Martyrius of Rukumije; Gregory of Gornjak; Zosimas of Tuman; and Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos)

• Saint of Livadeia (1602)
• Venerable Job of Pochaev, Abbot and Wonderworker (1651)
• Blessed Sophia of Kleisoura (Myrtidiotissa in Schema), the ascetic of Kleisoura, Fool-for-Christ (1974) <small>(see also: April 23 - os)</small>

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1238) of Saint Sava, first archbishop of Serbia (1235)
• Translation of the relics (1675) of Saint Pachomius of Nerekhta (1384)
• Repose of Archbishop Theophylactus Lopatinsky of Tver and Kashin, theologian and defender of Orthodoxy (1741)
• Slaying of Priest of Santa Cruz (1985) <small>(see also: May 19)</small>

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Notes

References

Sources

• May 6/19. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 19 / May 6, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 6, The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 6 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 6 ΜαΐοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 19 мая (6 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 6 мая (ст.ст.) 19 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).