May 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 13 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 15

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 27 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For May 14th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 1.

Saints

• Martyr Maximus, under Decius (250)^[1][2]
• Martyr Isidore of Chios (251)^[3]
• Saints Alexander, Barbaras, and Acolythus (Acolouthus), martyred at the Church of St Irene (Holy Peace), near the sea in Constantinople^[4]
• Martyrs Aristotle and Leandros^[5]
• Hieromartyr Therapont, Bishop of Cyprus (3rd century)^{[6][7][note 2]}
• Saint Boniface of Tarsus, martyr (307)^[8][9]
• Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th century)^{[1][10][note 3]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Justa, Justina and Henedina, in Sardinia (c. 130)^[8][9]
• Saint Pontius of Cimiez (Pons de Cimiez), martyred in Cimella (Cimiez) near Nice, whose relics gave his name to the town of Saint-Pons. (c. 258)^{[8][9][note 4]}
• Saint Aprunculus (Apruncule), first bishop of Langres, later of Clermont, Gaul (c. 488)^[1]
• Saint Boniface, Bishop of Ferentino in Tuscany (6th century)^[8]
• Saint Carthage (Carthach Mochuda) the Younger, founder and first abbot of Lismore (637)^[8][14]
• Saint Erembert, Bishop of Toulouse (657)^[8]
• Saint Tuto (Totto), monk and Abbot of St Emmeram in Regensburg in Germany, where he later became bishop (930)^[8]
• Saint Hallvard, of the royal family of Norway, patron saint of Oslo, martyr (1043)^[8]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Nicetas, Bishop of Novgorod and recluse of the Kiev Caves (1108)^{[15][note 5]}
• Patriarch Leontius II of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (1190)^[18][19][20]
• Saint Isidore of Rostov, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1474)^[7][21]
• New Martyr Mark of Crete, at Smyrna (1643)^[7][22]
• New Martyr John of Bulgaria (Raiko-John of Shumena), the goldsmith (1802)^[1][7][23]
• Saint Andrew, abbot of Raphael (Tobolsk) (1820)^[1][24]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Peter Rozhdestvin, Priest (1939)^[20][24]

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles (1609),^[1] of:

• Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1,000 laymen of the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery,^[25]
• Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of the St. Nicholas Monastery (Kostroma)^[26]

• Commemoration of Victor Chornayiv, Archimandrite of the Annunciation Monastery at Nizhyn (1761)^[27]
• Synaxis of the Yaroslavsk (Pechersk) Icon of the Mother of God (1823)^[28][29][30]
• First uncovering of the relics (1846) of Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783)^{[1][24][note 6]}

Icon gallery

• 
  Byzantine Pilgrim Stamp of Saint Isidore (6th century).
• 
  Mosaic in the St. Isidore chapel, in the Basilica of San Marco - Translation of the relics of St. Isidore, Chios.
• 
  St. Boniface of Tarsus (Bonifatius).
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  St. Boniface of Tarsus (Bonifatius).
• 
  St. Erembert, Bishop of Toulouse, stained glass.

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. Not to be confused with Therapont of Sardis (+259); or Therapont of White Lake (+1426). Note however, that the Orthodox Calendar at Pravoslavie.ru gives St. Therapont's date as (+632).
3. Not to be confused with the 4th-century Saint Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, in Egypt, Confessor (4th century), which is commemorated on March 21st.^[11][12][13]
4. Not to be confused with Pontius of Carthage (c. 260), who is commemorated on March 8.
5. See also: January 31,^[16] the day of his repose, and April 30, the day of the Uncovering of his Relics (1558).^[17]
6. This is observed on May 15 in the Greek Synaxarion.