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 Ven. John, Disciple of Gregory Decapolites The Holy Martyr John the New of Ioannina (1526)	2 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Great and Holy Thursday Ven. John of Ancient Caves in Palestine Our Holy Father Agathangelos (1819)	3 Lenten Fast—Strict Fast Great and Holy Friday Ven. Theodore Trichinas Holy Apostle Zaccheus	4 Lenten Fast—Wine is Allowed Great and Holy Saturday Hieromartyr Januarius and Companions
5 Holy Pascha The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Beginning of the Pentecostarion St Theodore the Sykeote Holy Martyr Leonidas (202) Our Holy Father, the monk Vitalis	6 Bright Monday Holy Greatmartyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George	7 Bright Tuesday Martyr Sabbas Stratelates	8 Bright Wednesday Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark Saint Ananias, Second Bishop of Alexandria (1st c.)	9 Bright Thursday St Stephen, Bishop of Perm Hieromartyr Basil, bishop of Amasia and Righteous Virgin Glaphyra (322)	10 Bright Friday The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos Hieromartyr Simeon, Kinsman of the Lord Our Holy Father Stephen, Abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir (1094) Burning of the relics of St Sava I of Serbia by the Turks (1594)	11 Bright Saturday Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy The Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus (3rd c.)
12 Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus St Basil, bishop of Ostrog in Montenegro (Serbia) (1671)	13 Holy Apostle James, Brother of St John St Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop of Stavropol and Kavkaz (1867)	14 Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa) 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)	15 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)	16 Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)	17 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Virgin Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.) St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)	18 Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica
19 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women 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)	20 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.)	21 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	22 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Prophet Isaiah Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)	23 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.)	24 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)	25 St Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)
26 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic Virgin Martyr Glyceria Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)	27 Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov Martyr Isidore of Chios (251) Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)	28 Ven. Pachomius the Great Slain Crown Prince Dimitry of Moscow Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)	29 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Midfeast of Pentecost 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)	30 Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy Holy Martyr Solochon (298)	31 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)