Orthodox Calendar for мај 2025

мај 2025
нед.	пон.	уто.	сре.	чет.	пет.	суб.
				1 Holy Prophet Jeremiah (583 BC) 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 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Trans. Rel. Boris and Gleb 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) Translation of the Relics of St Athanasius the Great, patriarch of Alexandria	3 Ven. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286) St Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074).
4 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.) Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Tarsus in Asia Minor (287) St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)	5 Great-martyr Irene of Thessalonica (4th c.)	6 Righteous Job the Long-suffering 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 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 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 Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909) (April 24 OC) St Lydia of Philippi (1st c.)	8 Holy Apostle John the Theologian Holy Apostle and Evangelist 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 Translation of the relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker from Myra to Bari (1087) Holy Prophet Isaiah (7th c. BC) Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)	10 Apostle Simon the Zealot Apostle Simon Zelotes 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 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic SS Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Methodius (885) and Cyril (869), first teachers of the Slavs Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)	12 Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)	13 Holy Virgin-martyr Glykeria at Heraclea (141). Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)	14 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Midfeast of Pentecost Martyr Isidore of Chios (251) Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.) Blessed Isidore the Fool for Christ (1484)	15 St Pachomius the Great, founder of cenobitic monasticism (346) Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)	16 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed 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)	17 Apostles Andronicus of the Seventy and his fellow-laborer Junia Holy Martyr Solochon (298)
18 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra and seven virgin-martyrs with him (303) Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)	19 Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and three priests with him (3rd c?)	20 Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327) Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)	21 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine (337) and Helen, his mother (327) Holy New Martyr Pachomius (1730)	22 Hieromartyr Basiliscus of Comana (308) Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem. Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).	23 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Michael the Confessor, bishop of Synnada (818) Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.) Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)	24 St Symeon Stylites (the Younger) of the Wonderful Mountain (595) Our Holy Father Nikita Stylites (1186) St Vincent of Lerins (445)
25 6th Sunday of Pascha Blind Man 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist Third Finding of the Precious Head of St John the Baptist (ca. 850) Holy Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th c.) Holy Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentian, Julius and those with them (302)	26 Holy Apostle Carpus of the Seventy Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605) Holy New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)	27 Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Sardis (259) Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304) Holy New Confessor John the Russian (1730) Saint David of Garesjei (6th c.) Venerable Bede (Baeda) (735)	28 Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension St Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Chalcedon (9th c.)	29 Ascension of the Lord Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308) 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 Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Isaac, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383) St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)	31 Apostle Hermas of the Seventy