Orthodox Calendar for May 2025

May 2025
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1 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 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)
4 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women Virgin Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.) St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)	5 Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica	6 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 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 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 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Prophet Isaiah Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)	10 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 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)	12 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 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Midfeast of Pentecost Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov Martyr Isidore of Chios (251) Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)	15 Ven. Pachomius the Great Slain Crown Prince Dimitry of Moscow Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)	16 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy Holy Martyr Solochon (298)
18 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)	19 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 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles Holy New Martyr Pachomius (1730)	22 Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of Comana Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem. Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).	23 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 Ven. Simeon the Stylite Ven. Nikita the Stylite St Vincent of Lerins (445)
25 6th Sunday of Pascha Blind Man 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 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 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov St Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Chalcedon (9th c.)	29 Ascension of the Lord 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 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)	31 Apostle Hermes of the Seventy