Orthodox Calendar for May 2040

May 2040
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1 Lenten Fast—No overrides Presanctified Liturgy Great and Holy Tuesday Ven. John, Disciple of Gregory Decapolites The Holy Martyr John the New of Ioannina (1526)	2 Lenten Fast—No overrides Presanctified Liturgy Great and Holy Wednesday Ven. John of Ancient Caves in Palestine Our Holy Father Agathangelos (1819)	3 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Great and Holy Thursday Ven. Theodore Trichinas Holy Apostle Zaccheus	4 Lenten Fast—Strict Fast Great and Holy Friday Hieromartyr Januarius and Companions	5 Lenten Fast—Wine is Allowed Great and Holy Saturday St Theodore the Sykeote Holy Martyr Leonidas (202) Our Holy Father, the monk Vitalis
6 Holy Pascha The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Holy Greatmartyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George Beginning of the Pentecostarion	7 Bright Monday Martyr Sabbas Stratelates	8 Bright Tuesday Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark Saint Ananias, Second Bishop of Alexandria (1st c.)	9 Bright Wednesday St Stephen, Bishop of Perm Hieromartyr Basil, bishop of Amasia and Righteous Virgin Glaphyra (322)	10 Bright Thursday 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 Friday The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy The Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus (3rd c.)	12 Bright Saturday Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus St Basil, bishop of Ostrog in Montenegro (Serbia) (1671)
13 Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday Holy Apostle James, Brother of St John St Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop of Stavropol and Kavkaz (1867)	14 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 Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa) 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 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)	17 Virgin Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.) St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)	18 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica	19 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 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women 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 Prophet Isaiah Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)	23 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)	25 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)	26 Virgin Martyr Glyceria Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)
27 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic 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 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 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Midfeast of Pentecost Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy Holy Martyr Solochon (298)	31 Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)