Orthodox Calendar for May 1980

May 1980
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1 Prophet Jeremiah Ven. Paphnutius of Borovsk Saint Tamara (Tamar), Queen of Georgia (1212)	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.)	3 Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)
4 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman 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)	7 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost St Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909) (April 24 OC) Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 AD Our Holy Fathers of Georgia (6th 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 6th Sunday of Pascha Blind Man SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)	12 St Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus	13 Virgin Martyr Glyceria Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)	14 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension Martyr Isidore of Chios Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)	15 Ascension of the Lord 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 St Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930)	17 Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and Junia Holy Martyr Solochon (298)
18 7th Sunday of Pascha Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)	19 Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prusa Rt. Blv. Dimitry Donskoy	20 Martyr Thalelaeus of Cilicia Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev	21 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 Leavetaking of Ascension St Michael the Confessor Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of Rostov Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas	24 Memorial Saturday Ven. Simeon the Stylite Ven. Nikita the Stylite St Vincent of Lerins (445)
25 8th Sunday of Pascha: Feast of the Holy Trinity Holy Pentecost 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 Day of the Holy Spirit Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605)	27 Third Day of the Trinity Hieromartyr Therapon Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)	28 St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov	29 Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre Rep. Bl. John of Ustiug Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325)	30 Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)	31 Leavetaking of Pentecost Apostle Hermes of the Seventy