May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 8 – Eastern Orthodox Church calendar – May 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 26.

Saints

• Prophet Isaiah (8th century BC)
• Great-martyr Christopher of Lycia (c. 250) and with him:

* Martyrs Callinica (Callinike of Lycia), Aquilina (Aquilina of Lycia) and 200 soldiers (c. 250)

• Saint Maximus III of Jerusalem, Patriarch (350) <small>(see also: August 26)</small>
• Saint Shio of Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th century)
• Monk-martyr Nicholas of Vouneni, in Thessaly (901)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Beatus, Apostle of Switzerland (2nd century)
• Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, at Alexandria (250)
• Martyr Gordion, at Rome (362)
• Saint John of Châlon, third Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône in France (c. 475)
• Saint Gerontius, bishop of Cervia near Ravenna in Italy, martyr (c. 501)
• Saint Sanctan, Bishop of Kill-da-Les and Kill-na-Sanctan near Dublin in Ireland (6th century)
• Blessed Adalgar, third archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen (909)
• Saint Vincent, Abbot of St Peter de Montes in Spain <small>()</small>, a disciple and successor of St. Gennadius of Astorga (c. 950)
• Saint Gregory, Bishop of Ostia (c. 1044)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint , Prince of Moscow (1389) <small>(see also: May 19)</small>
• Saint , Hiero-schema-monk of Optina Monastery (1911)
• Venerable Elder Ieronymos of Simonopetra (1957) <small>(see also: April 26 - OS)</small>

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Dimitry Voskresensky, Archpriest, of Anastasovo, Chuvashia (1938)
• New Hieromartyr Basil Kolosov, Priest (1939)
• Hieromartyr Elijah Rodić (Ilija Rodić), martyred during World War II in Trubar (1942)

Other commemorations

• Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari (1087) <small>(see also: May 20)</small>
• Zaraysk Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1225)
• Translation of the relics (1775) of Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk (1690)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• May 9/22. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 22 / May 9, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• May 9. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May 9. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 9. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 9 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 9 ΜαΐοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 22 мая (9 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia – Pravenc.ru).
• 9 мая (ст.ст.) 22 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).