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May 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For May 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 25.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (c. 1141)[7]
  • Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (13th-14th centuries)[14][15]
  • Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves (14th century)[7][16]
  • The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk, founders of the Sestrinsk monastery on the banks of the River Sestra (15th-16th centuries)[14][17]

New martyrs and confessors

  • Martyr Nicephorus Zaitsev (1942)[18]

Other commemorations

Notes

  1. ↑ The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. ↑ "His popularity in Ukraine and elsewhere was due to his Gospel and the belief that he was taken bodily into heaven upon his repose. On this day, worshippers at the site of his tomb at Ephesus are enveloped with bright particles that rise in the air as a result of a gentle breeze and these particles are miracle-working. On the island of Patmos where St John wrote the Book of Revelation, there is enshrined the Kozak martyr, St Pachomius."[3]
  3. ↑ Bishop Laurence of Siponto (called Majoranus), was Bishop of Siponto in Italy from 492. He built the church of St Michael on Mt Gargano. He is commemorated on February 7 († 546).[19]
  4. ↑ The Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo is the oldest shrine in Western Europe dedicated to the archangel Michael and has been an important pilgrimage site since the middle ages. The historic site and its environs are protected by the Parco Nazionale del Gargano. In 2011, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven, inscribed as Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.).
  5. ↑ (Elder Michael I The Confessor, 1871-1934). An outstanding monastery spiritual director and a leading father during the height of Valaam's blossoming. Elder Michael showed his integrity and genuineness when trouble struck in the twenties, with the forced installation of the Western secular calendar into Church life, which had not changed since ancient Byzantine times. He became a stalwart confessor of ecclesiastical firmness to the end and died as a hero in battle after being tormented by years of banishment, exile and mockery. Fr. Michael came to Valaam at a young age and his two brothers followed him, one a poet, and the other a musician, and they became outstanding monks. After visiting the Holy Land, Mt. Athos, Optina, and other centers of living Orthodoxy, Fr. Michael was able to widen his spiritual vision. He became a God bearing Elder and enabled his monks to be zealots for Orthodoxy at a time when apostasy began to encroach upon the Orthodox Church from within. In this sense, he became a carrier of the apostolic gift of Prophecy as is spoken of by St. Paul. A man ahead of his time, he is a guiding light for us and for Russia today.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  2. ↑ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεολόγος ἡ Ἀπόστολος καὶ Εὐαγγελιστής. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  3. ↑ Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
  4. ↑ Ἡ Ἁγία σπείρα Στρατιωτῶν οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  5. ↑ Ἡ Ἁγία Αὐγουστίνη ἡ Μάρτυς ἡ ἐν Βυζαντίῳ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 May 8 Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, The Roman Martyrology.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 May 8/21, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  8. ↑ Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović. The Prologue from Ohrid - May 8.
  9. ↑ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Μέγας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  10. ↑ Ὁ Ὅσιος Μῆλος (ἢ Μαλλός) ὁ Ὑμνωδός, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  11. ↑ Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 May 8. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  13. ↑ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἑλλάδιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ὡξέρρης, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 May 21 / May 8, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
  15. ↑ Ὁ Ὅσιος Κασσιανὸς ὁ Ἔγκλειστος, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  16. ↑ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ ἐν τῇ Λαύρᾳ τοῦ Κιέβου ἀσκήσας, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  17. ↑ Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ζωσιμᾶς καὶ Ἀνδριανός, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  18. ↑ (in Russian) 8 мая (ст.ст.) 21 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
  19. ↑ Laurence of Siponto Feb 7. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  20. ↑ Katherine I. Rabenstein. May 8. Saint of the Day - St. Patrick Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.
  21. ↑ Μνήμη Θαύματος τῆς σεβασμίας εἰκόνος τῆς Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  22. ↑ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  23. 1 2 VALAAM PATERICON.

Sources

  • Complete List of Saints, Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG)
  • May 8, OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • May 8/21, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
  • May 21 / May 8, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
  • VALAAM PATERICON.
  • Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
  • May 8. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • May 8, The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 8 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 8 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

  • (in Russian) 21 мая (8 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • (in Russian) 8 мая (ст.ст.) 21 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
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