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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May 13, 2011 Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. Fast. Fish Allowed Holy Apostle James, the brother of St. John the Theologian (44). Uncovering of the relics (1558) of St. Nicetas, bishop of Novgorod (1108). St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop of the Caucasus and Stavropol (1867). St. Donatus, bishop of Euroea
101 Year Old Abbot Tryphon May 12, 2011 Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus: Theognes, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemas, Magnus, Theodotus, Thaumasius, and Philemon (3rd c.). Venerable Memnon the Wonderworker of Corfu (2nd c.). Venerable Nektarius of Optina (1928). Venerable Amphilochius of Pochaev (1970). Martyrs Diodorus
May 11, 2011 Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. Fast. Fish Allowed Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy, and their companions: Martyrs Saturninus, Jakischolus (Inischolus), Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius, Mammius, the Virgin Cercyra, and Christodolus the Ethiopian, at Corfu (1st. c.). Martyrs Dada, Maximus, and Quintilian at Dorostolum (286).
May 10, 2011 Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. Hieromartyr Symeon the Kinsman of the Lord (107). New Hieromartyrs Paul and John priests, Martyrs Peter, Nicholas, Auksentius, Sergius and Virgin-martyr Anastasia (1922). Virgin-martyr Mary (1938). New Hieromartyr John priest (1941). Venerable Stephen, abbot of the Kiev Caves and bishop of