May 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 17

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 29 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For May 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 3.

Saints

  • 16 priests, 9 deacons, 6 monks, and 7 unnamed virgins.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

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. Also commemorated on December 12.[2]
  3. In the Slavonic Menaion these are observed on May 18.
  4. It is well known that under the reign Shapur (309-379), Ardashir II had served as governor-King of Adiabene, where he had reportedly persecuted Christians.
  5. His memory is preserved in a poem by St. Joseph the Hymnographer (9th century) - (Parisian Codex 1575, sheet 846).[10]
  6. See also another group of Sabaite Fathers commemorated on March 20 († 796).[12]
  7. It appears that Saint Peter was an ascetic in the city of Petra. Later he was buried in a church at Blachernae.
  8. His feast day is on April 7. May 16 is likely the feast day of the translation his relics.[15]
  9. He is linked with Crantock in Cornwall and Carhampton in Somerset in England and was also venerated in Brittany.
  10. He is also commemorated on October 8 on the celebration of the "Synaxis of the Saints of Vyatka".[34] Saint Matthew was born in the city of Vyatka (now Kirov); in 1891 he became a monk at the Monastery of St. Alexander Nevsky, and was tonsured with the name Matthew; here he practiced asceticism, obedience, and unceasing prayer, and God blessed him as a Wonderworker. He reposed in peace in 1927.
  11. See also: (in Serbian): Старац Вукашин. Serbian Wikipedia.
  12. His feast day is on September 26.
  13. His feast day is on April 17.[39]

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  2. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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  25. Ὁ Ὅσιος Βρενδανὸς ὁ Ἀναχωρητής. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  26. Ὁ Ἅγιος Δομνόλος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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  32. May 29 / May 16. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  33. (in Russian) Собор Вятских святых. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). Retrieved: 2012-08-31.
  34. (in Russian) 8 октября (ст.ст.) 21 октября 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
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  36. Μνήμη Ἁγίας Εὐφημίας πλησίον τοῦ Νεωρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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  • May 16. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 16 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 16 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

  • (in Russian) 29 мая (16 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
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