May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For May 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 20.

Saints

• Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Moura of Antinoöpolis in Egypt (304)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning (285-305)^{[2][3][note 2]} (see also April 29)
• Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Byzantium (313)^[5] (see also June 10)
• Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire.^[6]
• Great martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, Wonderworker (318)^[7][8]
• Saint Mamai the Katholikos of Georgia (744)^[9]
• Saint Michael of Ulompo, Georgia (9th century)^[10]
• Saint Arsenius of Georgia (9th century)^[10]
• Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis (925)^[11]
• Saint Ecumenius, Bishop of Trikala, the Wonderworker (10th century)^[12]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (c. 106-115)^[13]
• Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (c. 113-119)^{[2][13][note 3]}
• Saint Juvenal of Narni (c. 369/377)^[2][13][15]
• Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th century)^[13]
• Saint Conleth, first Bishop of Kildare (c. 519)^[16] (see also: May 4 and May 10)^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of St Columba (563)^[13]
• Saint Adalsindis, sister of St Waldalenus, founder of the Monastery of Bèze in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze (c. 680)^[13]
• Saint Æthelwine (Elwin, Ethelwin), Bishop of Lindsey (c. 700)^[13]
• Saint Philip of Worms (770) (Philip of Zell)^[13][21]
• Saint Aldwyn of Coln (8th century)^[22]
• Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)^[13]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074)^[23]
• St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th century)^[24][25]
• Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow^[25]
• Saint Gregory Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott of Kamennoi Monastery (Monastery of the Transfiguration) at Kubenski Lake, in Vologda province) (1416)^[26]
• Martyr Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)^[27][28]
• Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th century)^[29]
• New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821)^[30]
• Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)^[31]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Vilensky, priest of Semyonovskoe (1918)^[32]
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Benevolsky, priest of Alma-Ata (1941)^[24][33]

Other commemorations

• Icon of Our Lady of Blachernae (7th century)^[34][35]
• Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion (953)^[36]
• Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople, to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)^[24][37]
• "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)^[38]
• Finding of the relics of Saint John (Vilenskiy) of Yaroslavl (2018)^[39] (see also: October 28)

Icon gallery

• 
  St. Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis.
• 
  Pope Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome.
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  Church of St. Juvenal of Narni (Chiesa di San Giovenale, a Narni).
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  St. Ansfried of Utrecht and his wife Hereswint (or Hilsondis), founders of the abbey of Thorn (Limburg, Netherlands) on two stainded glass windows (1956).
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  St. Theodosius of 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. "At Aphrodisia, in Caria, the holy martyrs Diodorus and Rodopian, who were stoned to death by their fellow-citizens, in the persecution of Diocletian."^[4]
3. Tradition relates that, after a lengthy imprisonment, Pope Saint Alexander I and two priests, Eventius and Theodulus, were burned and then beheaded during Hadrian's persecution. During his imprisonment, Alexander is said to have brought Saint Quirinus and his daughter Saint Balbina to the faith. Today's saints were buried on the Via Nomentana near Rome. Their relics were later translated to the church of Saint Sabina, which now belongs to the Dominicans. Although called Pope Alexander in the Roman Martyrology, all sources agree that this is probably an erroneous listing (Benedictines, Coulson, Delaney, Husenbeth).^[14] (The identification of the martyr Alexander with the Pope was removed from the Roman Calendar by Pope John XXIII in 1960.)