Saints

• The Seven Apostolic Men
  Seven Apostolic Men
  According to Christian tradition, the Seven Apostolic Men were seven Christian clerics ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain...
  
  , Martyr Bishops, ordained in Rome by Saints Peter
  Saint Peter
  Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader, who is featured prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The son of John or of Jonah and from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, his brother Andrew was also an apostle...
  
   and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain (1st c.):
• Saints Torquatus
  Torquatus of Acci
  Saint Torquatus is venerated as the patron saint of Guadix, Spain. Tradition makes him a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Acci, identified as Guadix, and became its first bishop...
  
  , Ctesiphon
  Ctesiphon of Vergium
  Saint Ctesiphon is venerated as the patron saint of Berja, Spain. Tradition makes him a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Bergi, Vergis, or Vergium, identified as Berja, and became its first bishop...
  
  , Secundus
  Secundus of Abula
  Saint Secundus or Secundius is venerated as a Christian missionary and martyr of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Abula, which has been identified as either Ávila or Abla, and became its first bishop....
  
  , Indaletius
  Indaletius
  Saint Indaletius is venerated as the patron saint of Almería, Spain. Tradition makes him a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Urci , near the present-day city of Almería, and became its first bishop. He may have been martyed at Urci...
  
  , Caecilius
  Caecilius of Elvira
  Saint Caecilius is venerated as the patron saint of Granada, Spain. Tradition makes him a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Iliberri or Iliberis , and became its first bishop. He is thus considered the founder of the archdiocese of...
  
  , Hesychius
  Hesychius of Cazorla
  Saint Hesychius is venerated as the patron saint of Cazorla, Spain. Tradition makes him a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Carcere, Carteia, or Carcesi, identified as Cazorla, became its first bishop, and was martyred there by being...
  
  , and Euphrasius
• Martyrs Cassius
  Cassius of Clermont
  Saint Cassius of Clermont is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. He was a senator who was converted to Christianity by Saint Austremonius....
  
  , Victorinus, Maximus, and their companions, in the Auvergne in France (ca.264)
• Martyr Simplicius, Bishop, in Sardinia (ca.284-305)
• Virgin recluse Caesarea of Otranto
• Saint Achilles, Bishop of Larissa
  Larissa
  Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...
  
   (330)
• Saint Pachomius
  Pachomius
  Saint Pakhom , also known as Pachome and Pakhomius , is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism. In the Coptic churches his feast day is celebrated on May 9...
  
   the Great, founder of cenobitic
  Cenobitic
  Cenobitic monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life. Often in the West, the community belongs to a religious order and the life of the cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts...
  
   monasticism (348)
• Saint Silvanus of Tabennisi
  Tabenna
  Tabenna is considered the first cenobitic monastery. It was a community founded by Pachomius on an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt....
  
   (in the Thebaid
  Thebaid
  The Thebaid or Thebais is the region of ancient Egypt containing the thirteen southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan. It acquired its name from its proximity to the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes....
  
  ) (4th c.)
• Saint Hilary of Galeata
  Hilary of Galeata
  Saint Hilary of Galeata is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. His feast day is May 15....
  
   (Hilary of Tuscany), founder of the monastery called Galeata, later known as Sant'Ilaro (Sant'Ellero di Galeata) (558)
• Saint Colmán of Oughaval
  Oughaval (County Laois)
  Oughaval , County Laois, Ireland, sometimes called Oakvale, is a townland within the present day parish of Stradbally and is the site of a sixth century monastic settlement.-Monastery:...
  
   (Colman mac Ua Laoighse, Colman Mc O'Laoighse), a disciple of St Columba
  Columba
  Saint Columba —also known as Colum Cille , Colm Cille , Calum Cille and Kolban or Kolbjørn —was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period...
  
   and St Fintan of Clonenagh (6th c.)
• Virgin-martyr Dymphna
  Dymphna
  'Saint Dymphna was the daughter of a pagan Irish king and his Christian wife in the 7th century. She was murdered by her father. The story of St. Dymphna was first recorded in the thirteenth century by a canon of the Church of St. Aubert at Cambrai, commissioned by the Bishop of Cambrai, Guy I...
  
   of Geel, Flanders (ca. 650)
• Saint Waldalenus, founder of monastery of Bèze
  Bèze
  Bèze is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.-Population:-External links:*...
  
   in France (7th c.)
• Saint Bercthun (Bertin), a disciple of St John of Beverley
  John of Beverley
  John of Beverley was an English bishop active in the kingdom of Northumbria. He was the Bishop of Hexham and then the Bishop of York which was the most important religious designation in the area. He went on to found the town of Beverley by building the first structure there, a monastery...
  
   and first Abbot of Beverley
  Beverley Minster
  Beverley Minster, in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire is a parish church in the Church of England. It is said to be the largest parish church in the UK....
  
   in England (733)
• Saint Bertha of Bingen
  Bertha of Bingen
  Saint Bertha of Bingen was the mother of Rupert of Bingen. Her biography was written, and subsequently her cult popularized, by Hildegard of Bingen, who lived in the same region, about three hundred years later...
  
   (ca.757), and her son Saint Rupert of Bingen
  Rupert of Bingen
  Saint Rupert of Bingen was the son of Bertha of Bingen, a Christian noblewoman. His father was a pagan called Robold. After the latter's death, the child was raised as a Christian by his mother. Bertha and Rupert share a feast day on May 15.Rupert undertook a pilgrimage to Rome aged 15, and is...
  
   (732)
• Saint Barbarus the Myrrh-gusher of Greece (c.820-829)
• Saint Panegyrios of Cyprus (Panigerios, Panegyrius), Wonderworker of Malounta
  Malounta
  Malounta is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located 2 km north of Klirou....
  
  
• Saint Isaiah of Rostov
  Isaiah of Rostov
  Saint Isaiah of Rostov was a Russian Christian missionary and bishop. His feast day in the Russian Orthodox Church is celebrated on May 15....
  
  , bishop and wonderworker (1090)
• Saint Isaiah of the Kiev Caves, wonderworker (1115)
• Saint Andrew the Hermit, of Mt. Kalana, Epirus, wonderworker (ca.1237-1271)
• Saint Pachomius of Nerekhta
  Nerekhta
  Nerekhta is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia. Population: It has been known since the early 13th century. The town does not retain many marks of antiquity, apart from several 17th-century churches. It has been known for its textiles since the 19th century...
  
  , abbot (1384), and Saint Silvanus of Nerekhta (1384)
• Saint Euphrosynus of Pskov
  Euphrosynus of Pskov
  Saint Euphrosynus of Pskov was a Russian monk and founder of a monastic community.Euphrosynus was born as Eleazar in Videlebe, a village near Pskov. He entered the Snetogorsky monastery in Pskov, where he took the monastic name Euphrosynus. Around 1425 he began living in a hermitage, where he...
  
   (Eleazar), abbot and wonderworker (1481)
• Saint Serapion of Pskov, disciple of St Euphrosynus of Pskov
  Pskov
  Pskov is an ancient city and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located in the northwest of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population: -Early history:...
  
    (1481)
• Saint Pachomius of Keno Lake Monastery (1525)
• Saint Demetrius of Moscow the Wonderworker, Slain Crown Prince (1591)
• Saint Macarius (Glukharev) of the Altai, Archimandrite (1847)
• Saint Arethas of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1903)
• New Hieromartyrs:
• Archbishop Pachomius (Kedrov) of Chernigov (1938),
• his brother Archbishop Abercius
  Abercius
  Abercius may refer to:* the Inscription of Abercius, a hagiography from Abercius of Hieropolis*Abercius of Hieropolis, the writer of that document and a Christian saint*Abercius of Abercius and Helena, a pair of sibling martyrs...
  
   (Kedrov) of Zhitomir (1937),
• their father Priest Nicholas (Kedrov) (1936),
• their brother-in-law Priest Vladimir Zagarsky (1937)

Other commemorations

• Discovery of the revered icon of Kamoulianos "Acheiropoieta
  Acheiropoieta
  Acheiropoieta — also called Icons Made Without Hands — are a particular kind of icon which are alleged to have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human painter. Invariably these are images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary...
  
  " ("made without human hands").
• Translation of the sacred relics of the Holy Apostle Titus
  Apostle Titus
  Titus was a companion of Saint Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline epistles. Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name occurs nowhere in the Acts of the Apostles....
  
   of Crete, from Venice (which had taken the relics in 1669), back to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Crete (1966)
• Uncovering of the relics (1846) of Saint Tikhon
  Tikhon of Zadonsk
  Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk was a Russian Orthodox bishop and spiritual writer who has been glorified a saint of the Orthodox Church....
  
  , Bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783)

Sources

• May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
• May 15/28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 28 / May 15. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 15. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• May 15. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 15. The Roman Martyrology.

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