May 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 3 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 15 by

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on the

Old Calendar Old Calendarists (Greek: ''palaioimerologitai'' or ''palaioimerologites''), also known as Old Feasters (''palaioeortologitai''), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; ), are traditionalist groups of Eastern Orthodox Chri ...

. 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 Dafnousia ( el, Δαφνούσια) is a former municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lokroi, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 77.374 km2. In ...

* ''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)May 2
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint Germanus of Normandy, converted by St

Germanus of Auxerre Germanus of Auxerre ( la, Germanus Antissiodorensis; cy, Garmon Sant; french: Saint Germain l'Auxerrois; 378 – c. 442–448 AD) was a western Roman clergyman who was bishop of Autissiodorum in Late Antique Gaul. He abandoned a career as a h ...

, 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 Saint Patrick ( la, Patricius; ga, Pádraig ; cy, Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints be ...

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

* St. Athanasius of Syandem and Valaam (c. 1550)May 2/15
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Patriarch Athanasius III Patelaros, of Constantinople, from Lubensk ( Lubny), Wonderworker (1654) * Blessed Basil of Kadom,

fool-for-Christ Foolishness for Christ ( el, διά Χριστόν σαλότητα, cu, оуродъ, юродъ) refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining an ascetic order or religious life, or deliberately flouting socie ...

(1848) * ''Saint

Matrona Matrona may refer to: Religion * Matryona Nikonova, known as Matrona of Moscow, a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church * Matrona of Barcelona, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, born in Thessaloniki and venerated in Barcelona * Matrona of Chios, ...

the Blind, the Righteous Wonderworker of Moscow'' (1952)

Other commemorations

* ''Translation of the relics of Patriarch

Athanasius of Alexandria Athanasius I of Alexandria, ; cop, ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲕⲟⲥ or Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲁ̅; (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, ...

(''Athanasios the Great'')'' (373) * ''Translation of the

relic In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...

s (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)May 15, 2011 / May 2
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)

Icon gallery

File:TzarBorisDidacticGospelConstantinePreslavski.jpg, St. Boris-Michael, Prince and baptizer of Bulgaria. File:Wiborada1430.jpg, St. Wiborada. (Cathedral library of St. Gallen, Codex 586, S. 230. c. 1430-1436).

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) * Dr. Alexander Roman.

'' Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).

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. 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. 192–193. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
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ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
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'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *
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Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). {{DEFAULTSORT:May 2 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) May in the Eastern Orthodox calendar