Orthodox Calendar for May 2054

May 2054
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1 Lenten Fast—Strict Fast Great and Holy Friday 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 is Allowed Great and Holy Saturday 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 Holy Pascha The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Beginning of the Pentecostarion Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)	4 Bright Monday Virgin Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.) St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)	5 Bright Tuesday Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica	6 Bright Wednesday 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 Thursday 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 Friday The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos 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 Saturday Prophet Isaiah Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)
10 Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday 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 SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)	12 Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa) St Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)	13 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Virgin Martyr Glyceria Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)	14 Martyr Isidore of Chios Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov 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 St Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930) Blessed Musa the Maiden (5th c.) St Brendan the Voyager, abbot of Clonfert (ca. 577)
17 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women 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 Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prusa Rt. Blv. Dimitry Donskoy	20 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Martyr Thalelaeus of Cilicia Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev	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 Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.) Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)
24 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic 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 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 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Midfeast of Pentecost Hieromartyr Therapon Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk 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	29 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman Apostle Hermes of the Seventy