May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 23

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For May 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 9.

Feasts

• Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (381)[1][2]

Saints

• Righteous Melchizedek, King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) (c. 2000 BC)[1][note 2]
• Martyr Sophia the Healer.[4]
• Martyr Marcellus, by being placed in molten lead.[5]
• Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), by being dragged by horses.[6]
• Martyr Basiliscus of Kamani (c. 285-305)[7][8]
• Saint Donatus of Thmuis, Bishop and Martyr (316)[9][note 3]
• Saint John Vladimir, King of Serbia, Martyr, Wonderworker (1015)[1][10]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Ausonius, first Bishop of Angoulême (1st or 3rd century)[11][note 4]
• Saint Marcian of Ravenna, Bishop and Confessor (c. 127)[8][12][note 5]
• Martyrs Castus and Emilius, by fire, in Carthage (250)[8][13]
• Martyrs Timothy, Faustinus and Venustus, in Rome, under Julian the Apostate (362)[8][14]
• Saint Helen of Carnarvon (Elen Luyddog, Helen of Caernarfon), Princess, a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales, and wife of Emperor Magnus Clemens Maximus (383-388)[15]
• Saint Helen of Auxerre (c. 418)[8][16][note 6]
• Saint Julia of Corsica the martyr, who was crucified (5th century)[8][17]
• Saint Quiteria the virgin-martyr, in Spain (5th century)[8][18]
• Saint Romanus of Subiaco (Romanus of Auxerre), ascetic who ministered to Saint Benedict of Nursia (560)[8][19]
• Saint Fulk (c. 600)[20]
• Saint Boethian of Pierrepont (near Laon), Irish, Benedictine monk, martyred in France (7th century)[21]
• Saint Conall (Conald, Coel), of Inniskeel (Inniscoel, Innis-coel), County Donegal, Abbot of the island monastery of Inniskeel, where there is a holy well dedicated to him (7th century)[22]
• Saint John of Parma, abbot of Saint John's at Parma from 973 to c. 982, then under Cluniac observance (c. 982)[20][note 7]
• Saint Bobo (Beuvon), hermit (c. 985)[20]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Kali of Asia Minor (c. 14th century)[23][note 8]
• New Hieromartyr Zachariah of Prussa (1802)[24]
• Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi (Novgorod), Wonderworker (1540)[1][25][note 9]
• New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos (1803)[26][note 10]
• Venerable Monk-martyr Paul of Mt. Athos, at Tripolis, Peloponnesus (1818)[1][28]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Michael Borisov, priest (1942)[29][30]

Other commemorations

• Synaxis of the Cyprus Icon ("Sophianois" Icon) of the Most Holy Mother of God.[31][32][note 11]
• Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1816)[33][34]
• Repose of Eldress Macrina of Volos (1995)[1]

Icon gallery

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  The First Council of Constantinople (381), wall painting at the church of Stavropoleos, Bucharest, Romania.
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  First Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (381).
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  Abraham meets Melchisedech (Mosaic in Basilica di San Marco).
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  Mosaic of Melchisedech, Abraham and Abel (Ravenna - Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe).
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  Icon of Melchizedek, in Libotin wooden church, Maramureș, Romania.
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  St. Jovan Vladimir.
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  St. Jovan Vladimir, from the Ardenica Monastery in Albania (1739).
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  Stained glass windows of Saint Julia of Corsica.
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  Virgin Martyr Saint Quiteria.

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. Melchisedek was a contemporary of our forefather Abraham. According to the words of the Apostle Paul he was a king, priest and proto-type of the Lord Jesus Christ (Hebrews 7).[3] He is also commemorated on the Sunday before the Nativity of the Lord (i.e. the Sunday of the Holy Fathers, which falls between December 18 and December 24 each year).
3. Saint Donatus was the successor of the also martyred St. Phileas as Bishop of Thmuis, a city of Lower Egypt in the Roman province Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium.
4. The first Bishop of Angoulême was Ausonius, a disciple, it is said, of St. Martial, concerning whom we have two historical authorities: St. Gregory of Tours, who held that St. Martial preached the gospel in Limoges about the year 250, and the Limousin traditions, transmitted or invented by the chronicler Adhémar de Chabannes, who maintained that St. Martial was the immediate disciple of St. Peter. According to the latter opinion St. Ausonius was a bishop of the 1st century; according to the former, of the 3rd century.
5. Some people have argued that he is the same person as Marcian of Tortona (c. 120).
6. St. Helen of Auxerre is mentioned in the writings of Saint Agapetos (Amator), bishop of Auxerre (418) (May 1). She was the one who looked after him when he was ill.
7. John was born in Parma, Italy, and early in life was made a canon of the cathedral there. He is said to have made six pilgrimages to Jerusalem and to have taken the Benedictine habit in the Holy Land.
8. Also commemorated on May 15, and the Saturday of Bright Week.
9. The Translation of his sacred relics is observed on October 23.
10. New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos is commemorated on April 14.[27]
11. Also commemorated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Pentecost Monday, April 20 and July 9.

References

1. May 22/June 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
2. Μνήμη Β’Οἰκουμενικῆς Συνόδου. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
3. Bishop Nikolai Velimirovch. May 22 Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Machine. The Prologue from Ohrid. (Serbian Orthodox Church Diocese of Western America).
4. Ἡ Ἁγία Σοφία ἡ Μάρτυς ἡ Ἰατρός. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάρκελλος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. Ὁ Ἅγιος Κόδρος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασιλίσκος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. May 22 Archived 2011-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. The Roman Martyrology.
9. Ὁ Ἅγιος Δονάτος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θαυματουργός τοῦ Βλαδιμήρου. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐσόνιος ὁ Ἐπίσκοπος. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαρκιανὸς ὁ Ἐπίσκοπος. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Αἰμίλιος καὶ Κάστος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τιμόθεος, Φαυστίνος καὶ Βενοῦστος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. Ἡ Ἁγία Ἑλένη ἡ Πριγκίπισσα. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. Ἡ Ἁγία Ἑλένη τῆς Ὡξέρρης. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. Ἡ Ἁγία Ἰουλία ἡ Μάρτυς. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. Ἡ Ἁγία Κουϊτερία ἡ Μάρτυς. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. Ὁ Ὅσιος Ρωμανὸς ὁ Ἀσκητής. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. May 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
21. Ὁ Ἅγιος Βοηθιανὸς ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
22. Ὁ Ὅσιος Κονάλδος. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. Ἡ Ὁσία Καλή. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
24. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
25. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ Δίκαιος. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
26. Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Πελοποννήσιος. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
27. Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας. 14 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
28. Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
29. June 4 / May 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH(A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
30. (in Russian) 22 мая (ст.ст.) 4 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
31. Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Σοφιανοῖς. 22 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
32. Icon of the Mother of God of Cyprus. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
33. Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
34. Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar - May. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.

Sources

• May 22/June 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
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• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar - May. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.
• May 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 22. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 22 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 22 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 4 июня (22 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
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