May 23, 2011 Fifth Week of Pascha.Tone four. Apostle Simon the Zealot (1st. c.). St. Simon, bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal (Kiev Caves) (1226). Martyrs Philadelphus, Cyprian, Alphaeus, Onesimus, Erasmus, and 14 others, in Sicily (251). Martyr Hesychius of Antioch (4th c.). Venerable Isidora the Fool of Tabenna (Egypt) (365).
Archpriest John Pierce, Bishop Benjamin, and Priest Christopher Swanson May 22, 2011 Fifth Sunday of Pascha: The Samaritan Woman. Tone four. Prophet Isaiah (8th c. B.C.). Martyr Christopher of Lycia, and with him Martyrs Callinica and Aquilina (249). Translation of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from Myra to
May 21, 2011 Fourth Week of Pascha. Tone three. Synaxis of New Martyrs of Butovo (movable holiday on the Saturday after the Pascha). Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (98-117). Venerable Arsenius the Great of Scetis (448). Venerables Arsenius the Lover of Labor (14th c.) and Pimen the Ascetic
The Dawn’s Light Shines Over the Temple May 20, 2011 Fourth Week of Pascha. Tone three. Fast. Fish Allowed Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 A.D. Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303). Repose of Venerable Nilus, abbot of Sora (1508).
May 19, 2011 / May 6, 2011 Fourth Week of Pascha. Tone three. Righteous Job the Long-suffering. Venerable Micah, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1385). Venerable Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651). Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier, Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea (362). Martyr Barbarus the former robber
Abbot Tryphon and Pastor Otto, at the Norwegian Constitution Day Parade May 18, 2011 / May 5, 2011 Mid-Pentecost or Prepolovenie. Tone three. Fast. Fish Allowed “Mozdok” and “Dubensk-Krasnogorodsk” (17th c.) Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Prepolovenie – Mid-Pentecost). Great-martyr Irene of Thessalonica (1st-2nd c.).
May 17, 2011 Fourth Week of Pascha. Tone three. Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Tarsus in Asia Minor (287). New Hieromartyr John priest (1942). New Hieromartyr Nicholas diacon (1943). The Alfanov brothers: Venerables Nicetas, Cyril, Nicephorus, Clement, and Isaac of Novgorod, founders of the Sokolnitzki Monastery (1389). Hieromartyr Erasmus, bishop of Formia
May 16, 2011 Fourth Week of Pascha. Tone three. Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286). Venerable Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074). Venerable Peter the Wonderworker, bishop of Argos (10th c.). New Hieromartyr Nicholas
May 15, 2011 Fourth Sunday of Pascha: The Paralyzed Man. Tone three. Translation of the relics of Martyr Abramius of Bulgaria (1230) (movable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Pascha). Righteous Tabitha (1st c.) (movable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Pascha). New Martyr Theodore of Bizantium, who died at
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