May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 8

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 20 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Martyr Juvenal of Benevento (132 AD)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Quadratus (Codratos) of Nicomedia and his companions (251–259)^[3] (see also March 10)
• Martyrs Rufinus and Saturninus^[4]
• Martyr Maximus^[5]
• Hieromartyr Flavius, and Martyrs Augustus and Augustinus (from Asia Minor) (ca.284-305)^[2][6]
• Martyr Acacius the centurion at Byzantium (303)^[7]
• The Venerable Fathers of Georgia: Saint John of Zedazeni (Zedazeni Monastery) in Georgia, and his 12 disciples (6th c.):^[8]

• Shio of Mgvime; David of Gareji, (see also: David Gareja monastery complex); Anthony of Martqopi; Thaddeus of Urbnisi or Stepantsminda; Stephen of Khirsa; Isidore of Samtavisi; Michael of Ulumbo; Pyrrhus of Breta; Zeno of Iqalto; Jesse (Ise) of Tsilkani; Joseph of Alaverdi; Abibus of Nekressi

• Saint Domitianus of Maastricht, bishop (560)^[9]
• Saints Serenicus and Serenus, two brothers who became monks and later settled as hermits near the River Sarthe in France (ca.669)^[9]
• Saint Placid (Placidus, Plait), Benedictine Abbot of the basilica monastery of St Symphorian in Autun, France (675)^[9]
• Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721)^[2][9]
• Saint Peter of Pavia (735)^[2][9]
• Saint Tarasius the Wonderworker of Lycaonia^[10] (see also May 8)
• Saint John the Confessor, of Psychaita, on the Bosphorus (ca. 825)^[11]
• Saint Nilus of Sora, abbot and wonderworker (1508)^[12][13]
• New Monkmartyr Pachomius of Mount Athos, of Usaki near Philadelphia (1730)^[12][14]
• Saint Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America (1909)^[15]
• Repose of Schema Elder Boris (monk Nicholas) of Valaam and Pskov (1967) (Elder Boris 1874-1967)^[16]
• Repose of Hieromonk Eulogius of Valaam (1969) (Hieromonk Eulogius 1876-1969)^[16]

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.^[17][18]
• Uncovering of the relics of St. Euthymius the Great (473)^[19]
• Icon of the Mother of God of Liubech (11th c.)^[20][21]
• "Zhirovits" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1470)^[12][22]
• Uncovering of the relics (1815) of Saint Nilus the Myrrh-gusher of Mount Athos (1651)^[23]

References

1. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰουβενάλιος ὁ Μάρτυρας, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} May 7, The Roman Martyrology.
3. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Κοδράτος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἀθλήσαντες ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ρουφίνος καὶ Σατορνίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος ὁ Μάρτυρας, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Φλάβιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ Ἅγιοι Μάρτυρες Αὔγουστος καὶ Αὐγουστίνος οἱ αὐτάδελφοι, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀκάκιος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ κεντυρίων. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ἐκ Γεωργίας καὶ οἱ μαθητὲς αὐτοῦ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. ^ ^{a b c d e} May 7. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
10. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ταράσιος ὁ Ἐρημίτης ὁ Θαυματουργὸς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ψυχαΐτης. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. ^ ^{a b c} May 7/20, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
13. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Νεῖλος ἐκ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. ^ Monkmartyr Pachomius of Mt Athos. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
15. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξιος ὁ Ὑπερασπιστὴς τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Πίστεως. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. ^ ^{a b} VALAAM PATERICON.
17. ^ Μνήμη τοῦ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ φανέντος σημείου τοῦ Τιμίου Σταυροῦ ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. ^ Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross Over Jerusalem, in 351 AD. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
19. ^ Μετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Εὐθυμίου τοῦ Μεγάλου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. ^ Icon of the Mother of God of Lubech. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
21. ^ Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Λιοῦμπεχ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
22. ^ Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Ζίροβιτς Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Νεῖλος ὁ ἐν τῇ μονῇ Μεγίστης Λαύρας ἀσκήσας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• May 7, 2011, OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• May 7/20, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
• VALAAM PATERICON.
• May 7. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 7, The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• 7 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.