Saints

• Saint Fort (Fort de Bordeaux), first Bishop of Bordeaux in France, venerated as a martyr (ca. 1st c.?)
• Saint Peregrinus
  Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni
  Saint Peregrinus was the Bishop of Terni, and was credited for founding the city's cathedral.-References:...
  
  , Bishop of Terni (138)
• Hieromartyr Alexander of Jerusalem, Archbishop (251)
• Saint Peregrine of Auxerre
  Peregrine of Auxerre
  Saint Peregrine of Auxerre is venerated as the first bishop of Auxerre and the builder of its first cathedral. A strong local tradition states that he was a priest of Rome appointed by Pope Sixtus II to evangelize this area at the request of the Christians resident in that part of Gaul...
  
  , martyr, the first bishop of Auxerre and the builder of its first cathedral (261 or 304)
• Martyrs Felix and Gennadius, at Uzalis
  Uzalis
  Uzalis is a Titular See of the Roman Catholic Church located in Tunisia. It is defined as the diocese that served the now defunct city of Carthage in the Africa province of the Roman Empire....
  
   in Africa
• Saint Papylinus the Martyr
• Martyrs Vitus
  Vitus
  Saint Vitus was a Christian saint from Sicily. He died as a martyr during the persecution of Christians by co-ruling Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 303. Vitus is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Roman Catholic Church....
  
   (Guy), Modestus
  Modestus
  Modestus was an early christian writer mentioned briefly by Eusebius in his | as the author of a book against the Marcion. Eusebius praises him as having "exposed the error of the man more clearly than the rest to the view of all"....
  
  , and Crescentia
  Crescentia
  Crescentia is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to southern North America, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America...
  
   at Lucania
  Lucania
  Lucania was an ancient district of southern Italy, extending from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. To the north it adjoined Campania, Samnium and Apulia, and to the south it was separated by a narrow isthmus from the district of Bruttium...
  
   (ca. 303)
• Martyrs Bachtisius, Isaac and Symeon of Persia (339)
• Saint Theodore the Sanctified of Tabennisi, disciple of Saint Pachomios the Great
  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...
  
   (367)
• Martyrs Abda
  Abda and Abdjesus
  Abda and Abdjesus were two Christian bishops who were martyred at Kashkar under Shapur II on May 16, in either 366 AD or 375 AD. They were first placed between heavy boards to crush their bones, and later beheaded....
  
   (Audas) and Abdjesus
  Abda and Abdjesus
  Abda and Abdjesus were two Christian bishops who were martyred at Kashkar under Shapur II on May 16, in either 366 AD or 375 AD. They were first placed between heavy boards to crush their bones, and later beheaded....
  
   (Audiesus) the Bishops, Benjamin, and 38 other martyrs at Beth-Kashkar
  Kashkar (East Syrian Diocese)
  The Diocese of Kashkar, sometimes called Kaskar, was the senior diocese in the Church of the East's Province of the Patriarch. The diocese is attested between the fourth and the twelfth centuries. The bishops of Kashkar had the privilege of guarding the patriarchal throne during the interregnum...
  
   in the Persian Empire, under Ardashir II
  Ardashir II
  Ardashir II was the tenth Sassanid King of Persia from 379 to 383.He is believed by some to be the son and by others to be the brother of his predecessor, Shapur II...
  
   (375), including:
• 16 priests, 9 deacons, 6 monks, and 7 unnamed virgins.
• Saint Hilary, Bishop of Pavia, one of the bishops in the north of Italy who fought against Arianism (376)
• Saint Neadius (Neadios), Bishop and Wonderworker
• Saint Possidius
  Saint Possidius
  Possidius was a friend of Saint Augustine of Hippo who wrote a reliable biography and an indiculus or list of his works. He was bishop of Calama in the Roman province of Numidia.-Biography:...
  
  , Bishop of Calama
  Guelma
  Guelma is the capital of Guelma Province and Guelma District, located in northeastern Algeria, about 65 kilometers from the Mediterranean coast...
  
   in Numidia in North Africa, a friend of Saint Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
  
   (c.370-c.440)
• Saint Primael, ascetic, from Britain, he went to Brittany and became a hermit near Quimper (ca.450)
• Blessed child Saint Musa of Rome (5th c.)
• Saint Carantac (Carantog, Caimach, Carnath), Welsh prince who aided St Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
   in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th c.)
• Saint Fidolus (Phal), Abbot at Isle-Aumont
  Isle-Aumont
  Isle-Aumont is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.-Population:-References:*...
  
  , south of Troyes
  Troyes
  Troyes is a commune and the capital of the Aube department in north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about southeast of Paris. Many half-timbered houses survive in the old town...
  
   (ca.540-549)
• Saint Germerius
  Germerius
  Saint Germerius was bishop of Toulouse from 510 to 560 AD. There is some question as to whether he actually existed. He is the patron saint of the abbey of Lézat.He was a native of Angoulême, or possibly of Jerusalem....
  
  , Bishop of Toulouse in France for fifty years (560)
• Saint Brendan
  Brendan
  Saint Brendan of Clonfert or Bréanainn of Clonfert called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", or "the Bold" is one of the early Irish monastic saints. He is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the "Isle of the Blessed," also called St. Brendan's Island. The Voyage of St...
  
   the Navigator, abbot of Clonfert
  Clonfert Cathedral
  Clonfert Cathedral is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Clonfert, County Galway in Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin...
  
   (ca.577)
• Saint Domnolus, Bishop of Le Mans (581)
• Saint Bardas, founder of the monastery of the Forerunner in Petra, Constantinople (5th-6th c.)
• Saint Carantoc
  Carantoc
  Saint Carantoc was a confessor and abbot of the early 6th century in Wales and what is now the English West Country.His early vita takes the form of a short homily...
  
  , an abbot who founded the church of Llangrannog
  Llangrannog
  Llangrannog is a small, coastal village and seaside resort in Ceredigion, Wales, seven miles south of New Quay. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, the population of Llangrannog was then 796 people...
  
   in Wales (6th c.)
• Saint Honoratus of Amiens
  Honoratus of Amiens
  Saint Honoratus of Amiens was the seventh bishop of Amiens. His feast day is May 16.-Life:...
  
  , the seventh bishop of Amiens (ca.600)
• Martyrdom of the 44 Holy Sabaite fathers, monk-martyrs of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified
  Mar Saba
  The Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, known in Arabic as Mar Saba , is a Greek Orthodox monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the West Bank east of Bethlehem. The traditional date for the founding of the monastery by Saint Sabas of Cappadocia is the year 483 and today houses around 20...
  
  , massacred by the Saracens (610 or 614)
• Saint Annobert (Alnobert), a monk at Almenêches
  Almenêches
  -Demographics:The population has varied over the past 200 years:-References:*...
  
  , consecrated Bishop of Séez in France (ca.689)
• Saint Franchy (Francovæcus), a monk at St Martin de la Bretonnière in France, later a hermit in the Nivernais
  Nivernais
  Nivernais is former province of France, around the city of Nevers and the département of Nièvre.The raw climate and soils cause the area to be heavily wooded.- References :* Chamber's Encyclopedia Volume 10 page 50...
  
   (Diocese of Nevers) (7th c.)
• Martyr Peter of Blachernae (761)
• Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Jerusalem (820)
• Saint George of Mitylene, Bishop (821 or 842)
• Saint Nicholas Mystikos
  Nicholas Mystikos
  Nicholas I Mystikos or Nicholas I Mysticus was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from March 901 to February 906 and from May 912 to his death in 925. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is May 16.Nicholas was born in the Italian Peninsula and had become a friend of the Patriarch Photios...
  
  , Patriarch of Constantinople
  Patriarch of Constantinople
  The Ecumenical Patriarch is the Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome – ranking as primus inter pares in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....
  
   (925)
• Saints Cassian (1537) and Laurence (1548), disciples of Venerable Cornelius of Komel (May 19
  May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  May 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 20All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 1 by Old Calendarists-Saints:* Martyr Pudens, the senator * Virgin-Martyr Pudentiana , daughter of Saint Pudens the senator...
  
  ), Abbots of Komel ("Korneliev" Monastery), Vologda
  Vologda
  Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...
  
  .
• New Hieromartyr Teodor (Nestorović) of Vršac, Bishop of Vršac
  Eparchy of Banat
  The Eparchy of Banat is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Banat region, Serbia. It is mostly situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, while the eparchy also include a small south-western part of Banat that belongs to the City of Belgrade as well...
  
   in Banat, Serbia (1595)
• New Martyr Nicholas of Metsovo
  Metsovo
  Metsovo is a town in Epirus on the mountains of Pindus in northern Greece, between Ioannina to the north and Meteora to the south. The largest centre of Vlach life in Greece, Metsovo is bypassed by GR-6 and also by Egnatia Odos Motorway....
  
  , at Trikala, whose relic
  Relic
  In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...
  
  s are at Meteora
  Meteora
  The Metéora is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains, in...
  
   (1617)
• New Martyr Vukasin of Serbia, under the Ustashi
  Ustaše
  The Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement was a Croatian fascist anti-Yugoslav separatist movement. The ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Nazism, and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span to the River Drina and to the border...
  
   terrorists (1941)

Other commemorations

• Foundation of the church of Saint Euphemia, near the Neorion
  Neorion (ancient greece)
  This article is about Neorion in ancient Greece, for the Greek company, see NeorionA néôrion is a type of classical Greek commemorative monument designed to celebrate a naval victory...
  
   (port facilities), by the Dolmabahçe Palace
  Dolmabahçe Palace
  Dolmabahçe Palace located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coastline of the Bosphorus strait, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1922, apart from a 22-year interval in which Yıldız Palace was used.- History :Dolmabahçe Palace...
  
   of Constantinople.
• Translation of the relics (1545) of Saint Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop
  Perekop
  Perekop is a village located at the Perekop Isthmus connecting Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian mainland. It is known for the Fortress Or Qapi that served as the gateway to Crimea...
  
  , Wonderworker of Novgorod (1492)
• Commemoration of Saint Macarius (Notaras) of Corinth
  Macarius of Corinth
  Macarius of Corinth Macarius of Corinth Macarius of Corinth (birth name: Macarius Notaras was born in Corinth in 1731 and died in Chios in April 1805. St Macarius as Bishop and later Metropolitan of Corinth, was a mystic and spiritual writer who worked to revive and mostly sustain the Orthodox...
  
   (1805) in the village of Myloi, Samos
  Samoš
  Samoš is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovačica municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,247 people .-See also:...
  
   island.
• Repose of Hieromonk Matthew of Yaramsk in Vyatka
  Kirov, Kirov Oblast
  Kirov , formerly known as Vyatka and Khlynov, is a city in northeastern European Russia, on the Vyatka River, and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast. Population: -History:...
  
  (1927)

Sources

• May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
• May 16/29. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 29 / May 16. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• May 16. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 16. The Roman Martyrology.

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