Orthodox Calendar for May 2024

May 2024
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1 Lenten Fast—No overrides Presanctified Liturgy Great and Holy Wednesday Prophet Jeremiah Ven. Paphnutius of Borovsk Saint Tamara (Tamar), Queen of Georgia (1212) Synaxis of the Three New Righteous Martyrs of the Holy Mountain, Euthymius, Ignatius, and Acacius (1814-1815)	2 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Great and Holy Thursday Trans. Rel. Boris and Gleb St Athanasius the Great, Patr. of Alexandria Saint Matrona (the Blind) of Moscow (1952) Holy Martyrs Hesperus, his wife Zoë, and their sons Cyriac and Theodulus (2nd c.) Holy Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (907) Translation of the Relics (1072 and 1115) of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, princes of Russia (1015)	3 Lenten Fast—Strict Fast Great and Holy Friday Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)	4 Lenten Fast—Wine is Allowed Great and Holy Saturday Virgin Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.) St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)
5 Holy Pascha The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Beginning of the Pentecostarion Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica	6 Bright Monday Righteous Job the Longsuffering St Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651) Holy Martyr Barbarus the Soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius (362) St. Sophia the Righteous (1974)	7 Bright Tuesday St Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 AD Our Holy Fathers of Georgia (6th c.) Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303) St Lydia of Philippi (1st c.)	8 Bright Wednesday Holy Apostle John the Theologian Our Righteous Father Arsenios the Great (449) St Emilia (375), mother of Sts Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theosevia	9 Bright Thursday Prophet Isaiah Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)	10 Bright Friday The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos Apostle Simon the Zealot Holy Martyrs Alphaeus, Philadelphus and Cyprinus of Sicily (251) St Isidora the Fool of Tabenna (Egypt) (4th c.) Blessed Thaïs (Taïsia) of Egypt (4th c.)	11 Bright Saturday SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)
12 Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday St Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)	13 Virgin Martyr Glyceria Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)	14 Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa) Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov Martyr Isidore of Chios (251) Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)	15 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Pachomius the Great Slain Crown Prince Dimitry of Moscow Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)	16 Ven. Theodore the Sanctified Trans. Rel. Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop Our Holy Father Theodore the Sanctified (368), disciple of St Pachomius the Great St Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930) Blessed Musa the Maiden (5th c.) St Brendan the Voyager, abbot of Clonfert (ca. 577)	17 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy Holy Martyr Solochon (298)	18 Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)
19 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prussa	20 Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)	21 SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles Holy New Martyr Pachomius (1730)	22 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of Comana Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem. Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).	23 St Michael the Confessor Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of Rostov St Michael the Confessor, bishop of Synnada (818) Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.) Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)	24 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Simeon the Stylite Ven. Nikita the Stylite St Vincent of Lerins (445)	25 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist Holy Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th c.) Holy Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentian, Julius and those with them (302)
26 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605) Holy New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)	27 Hieromartyr Therapon Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Sardis (259) Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304) Holy New Confessor John the Russian (1730) Saint David of Garesjei (6th c.) Venerable Bede (Baeda) (735)	28 St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov St Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Chalcedon (9th c.)	29 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Midfeast of Pentecost Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre Rep. Bl. John of Ustiug Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325) The Fall of Constantinople (1453); "Blessed Constantine XII, last of the Byzantine emperors, martyred by the Turks (1453)"	30 Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)	31 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Apostle Hermes of the Seventy