May 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 10 – Eastern Orthodox Church calendar – May 12

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 24 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For May 11th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 28.

Saints

• Martyr Evellius, under Nero (66)[1][2]
• Martyrs Maximus, Bassus, and Fabius (284–305)[2][3]
• Hieromartyr Mocius (Mucius), presbyter of Amphipolis in Macedonia, beheaded in Byzantium (288)[4][note 2]
• Martyr Armodius[5][note 3]
• Martyr Acacius of Lower Moesia[6]
• Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles and Enlighteners of the Slavs (869, 885)[7][8] (see also: July 17 )
• Saints Clement of Ohrid (916), Sabbas (X), Angelarius (Angelyar) (ca. 886), Gorazd (896), and Naum of Preslav (910) — Disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius and missionaries of the Slavs, Wonderworkers and Equal-to-the-Apostles[9][note 4]
• Saint Rostislav the Prince of Great Moravia, Confessor of the Faith (870)[6][8]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Anthimus of Rome, and martyrs Sisinius the deacon with Diocletius and Florentius (disciples of St. Anthimus), (284–305)[2][11][12]
• Saint Principia of Rome, a holy virgin in Rome and disciple of St Marcella (420)[12]
• Saint Mammertus, Archbishop of Vienne (475)[12][13]
• Saint Possessor of Verdun, Bishop of Verdun, he and his flock were greatly troubled by the barbarian invasions of Franks, Vandals and Goths (c. 486)[12]
• Saint Tudy (Tudinus, Tegwin, Thetgo), a disciple of St Brioc in Brittany (5th century)[12]
• Saint Credan of Cornwall, hogherd.[14]
• Saint Gangulphus (760)[12]
• Saint Fremund of Dunstable, Anglo-Saxon hermit, killed by his kinsman Oswy with the help of Danish invaders who had also murdered King Edmund (866)[12]
• Saint Odo of Cluny, the second Abbot of Cluny (942)[12]
• Saint Mayeul (Majolus, Maieul), Abbot of Cluny (994)[6][12]
• Saint Odilo of Cluny (1049)[12]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Martyrs Olympia, abbess of Mytilene, and nun Euphrosyne (1235)[6][15]
• Saint Sophronius of the Kiev Caves, recluse (13th century)[6][16][17][note 5]
• Saint Nicodemus of Pec, Archbishop of Serbia (1324)[6][18]
• Hieromartyr Joseph, first Metropolitan of Astrakhan (1672)[6][19][20]
• Blessed Christopher of Georgia (Christesias), monk at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at the David Gareja monastery complex, "The Thebaid of Georgia" (1771/1871)[21][22][note 6]
• New Martyr Dioscorus (Dioscorides) the New, of Smyrna[6][23][24]
• New Martyr Argyrus (Argyrus, Argyres) of Thessalonica (1806/1808)[6][24][25]
• Saint Theophylact, bishop of Stavropol and Ekaterinodar (1872)[26]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Michael Belorossov, priest (1920)[8][24]
• New Hieromartyr Alexander (Petrovsky), Archbishop of Kharkov (1940)[8][27][28]

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Founding of Constantinople (330) as Capital of the Roman Empire[29][30]
• Consecration of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev (960).[31]

Icon gallery

• 
  Saints Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equals-to-the-Apostles.
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  St. Clement of Ohrid.
• 
  Saint Naum of Preslav.
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  St. Rostislav the Prince of Great Moravia, Confessor of the Faith.
• 
  St. Mamertus, Archbishop of Vienne.
• 
  Sancreed church and war memorial, Cornwall.
• 
  St. Gangulphus of Burgundy.
• 
  St. Odo of Cluny.
• 
  St. Odo of Cluny.
• 
  St. Majolus of Cluny.
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  Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev.

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. The Roman Martyrology lists his feast day as May 13.
3. The Holy martyr Armodius is unknown in the Synaxaristes and Menaia, however his memory is preserved in an 11th-century codex from the Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Greek: μονῆς Κρυπτοφέρρης) near Rome.
4. See also July 27 (Slavonic Menaion) for these 5 Saints.[10]
5. See also March 11.
6. The Greek Synaxarion gives his date as 1871. Slavonic sources give the date of 1771.

References

1. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐβέλλιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. May 11 Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. The Roman Martyrology.
3. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μάξιμος, Βάσσος καὶ Φάβιος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. Ὁ Ἅγιος Μώκιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
5. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἁρμόδιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. May 11/24 Archived April 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
7. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κύριλλος καὶ Μεθόδιος οἱ Ἰσαπόστολοι καὶ Φωτιστὲς τῶν Σλάβων. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. (in Russian) 11 мая (ст.ст.) 24 мая 2013 (нов. ст.) Archived December 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
9. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κλήμης, Σάββας, Ἀγγελάριος, Γοράσδος καὶ Ναοὺμ οἱ Θαυματουργοὶ Ἰσαπόστολοι. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. Equal of the Apostles Clement of Ochrid the Bishop of Greater Macedonia. OCA – Feasts and Saints.
11. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἄνθιμος καὶ Σισίνιος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς Διόκλητος καὶ Φλωρέντιος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. May 11. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
13. Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). St. Mammertus, Archbishop of Vienne, Confessor. The Lives of the Saints. Volume V: May. 1866.
14. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.35.
15. Οἱ Ἁγίες Ὀλυμπία καὶ Εὐφροσύνη οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. Ὁ Ὅσιος Σωφρόνιος ὁ Ἔγκλειστος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. Venerable Sophronius the Recluse of the Kiev Far Caves. OCA – Feasts and Saints.
18. Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόδημος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Σερβίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. St Joseph the Metropolitan of Astrakhan. OCA – Feasts and Saints.
21. Ὁ Ὅσιος Χριστόφορος ἐκ Γεωργίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
22. Blessed Christopher, called Christesia. OCA – Feasts and Saints.
23. Ὁ Ἅγιος Διόσκορος ὁ Νέος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
24. May 24 / May 11. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
25. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀργύριος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Ἐπανομίτης. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
26. Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοφύλακτος Ἐπίσκοπος Σταυρουπόλεως. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
27. Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Χάρκωβ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
28. Hiero-Martyr Alexander (Petrovsky), Archbishop of Kharkov. Transl. from the Russian by Maria Ashot. Holy Trinity Orthodox Mission. 2001.
29. Μνήμη ἐγκαινίων τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
30. Commemoration of the Founding of Constantinople. OCA – Feasts and Saints.
31. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, Texas). p.35.

Sources

• May 11/24. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 24 / May 11. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• The Lives of the Saints – May 11 OCA
• May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
• May 11. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 11. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 11 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 11 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian sources

• (in Russian) 24 мая (11 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia – Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 11 мая (ст.ст.) 24 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).