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

* Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (381)

Saints

* Righteous Melchizedek, King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) (c. 2000 BC)May 22/June 4
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
* Martyr Sophia the Healer.
* Martyr Marcellus, by being placed in molten lead.
* Martyr Codratus ('' Quadratus''), by being dragged by horses.
* Martyr Basiliscus of Kamani (c. 285-305)May 22
. The Roman Martyrology.
* Saint Donatus of Thmuis, Bishop and Martyr (316)
* Saint John Vladimir, King of Serbia, Martyr, Wonderworker (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 Carnarvon (''Elen Luyddog, Helen of Caernarfon''), Princess, a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales, and wife of Emperor Magnus Clemens Maximus (383-388)
* Saint Helen of Auxerre (c. 418)
* Saint Julia of Corsica the martyr, who was crucified (5th century)
* 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)May 22
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* 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, where there is a holy well dedicated to him (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 of Prussa (1802)
* Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi (Novgorod), Wonderworker (1540)
* New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos (1803)
* Venerable Monk-martyr Paul of Mt. Athos, at Tripolis, Peloponnesus (1818)

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Michael Borisov, priest (1942)June 4 / May 22
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH(A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).22 мая (ст.ст.) 4 июня 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

Other commemorations

* Synaxis of the Cyprus Icon (''"Sophianois" Icon'') of the Most Holy Mother of God.
* Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1816)Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar - May
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.
* Repose of Eldress Macrina of Volos (1995)

Icon gallery

File:Council of Constantinople 381-stavropoleos church.jpg, The First Council of Constantinople (381), wall painting at the church of Stavropoleos, Bucharest, Romania.
File:Council of Constantinople 381 BnF MS Gr510 fol355.jpg, First Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (381).
File:Abraham meets Melchisedech (San Marco).jpg, Abraham meets Melchisedech (Mosaic in Basilica di San Marco).
File:Sacrifices of Abel, Melchisedec and Abraham - Sant'Apollinare in Classe - Ravenna 2016 (2).jpg, Mosaic of Melchisedech, Abraham and Abel (Ravenna - Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe).
File:Biserica de lemn Sf.Arhangheli din Libotin (13).JPG, Icon of Melchizedek, in Libotin wooden church, Maramureș, Romania.
File:JovanVladimirSlika.jpg, St. Jovan Vladimir.
File:Saint Jovan Vladimir (Ardenica).jpg, St. Jovan Vladimir, from the Ardenica Monastery in Albania (1739).
File:Meaux Vitrail 1867 30808 2.jpg, Stained glass windows of Saint Julia of Corsica.
File:SaintQuiteria.jpg, Virgin Martyr Saint Quiteria.

Notes

References

Sources

May 22/June 4
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

June 4 / May 22
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH(A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).


Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).


St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.


Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.


The Roman Martyrology.
Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes:
22 ΜΑΪΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
* Συναξαριστής.
22 Μαΐου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
Russian Sources
*

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).

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