May 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
May 24 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective May 24 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Martyrs Meletius Stratelates, Stephen, John, and 1218 soldiers with women and children, including:
Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the former Magician, Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna, and Palladia, two children Cyriacus and Christian; and
Twelve tribunes: Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, and Didymus — all of whom suffered in Galatia (c.138-161)
Venerable Symeon Stylites the Younger of the Wonderful Mountain (c. 596)
Saint Kyriakos (Cyriacus) of Evrychou, in Cyprus, the Wonderworker.
Nun-martyr Martha, abbess of Monemvasia (990) (see also: May 5)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Martyrs Donatian and Rogatian, brothers (299) (see also: May 23)
Martyr Afra (304)
Martyr Robustian, at Milan.
Martyr Vincent of Porto, near Rome.
Martyrs Zöellus, Servilius, Felix, Silvanus, and Diocles, in Istria.
Saint Patrice (Patrick), fourth Bishop of Bayeux in France (c.469) (see also: May 23)
Saint Elpidios (Elpidius), Bishop of Aversa in Campania, southern Italy (5th century)
Saint Vincent of Lerins (445)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Nikita Stylites, Wonderworker of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1186)
Saint Gregory of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod and Pskov (1193)
Saint Blondina Gobjilă (Blondina of Iași, Mama Blondina), a Confessor from the communist period who was exiled to Siberia for 15 years (1971)
New martyrs and confessors
Martyrdom by the Poles of Abbot Anthony, 40 monks, and over 1,000 laymen at the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (1609) (see also: May 14)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics (c.1067) of St. George of the Holy Mountain and Georgia (1065)
Inauguration of the church of Virgin Mary in Karrais (Al Kara) of Syria.
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