Saints

• Holy Myrrh-bearer
  Myrrhbearers
  In Eastern Orthodoxy the Myrrhbearers are the individuals mentioned in the New Testament who were directly involved in the burial or who discovered the empty tomb following the resurrection of Jesus...
  
   Mary, the wife of Cleopas
  Mary, the wife of Cleopas
  Mary of Clopas or Cleopas the wife of Clopas was one of various Marys named in the New Testament.Mary of Clopas is explicitly mentioned only in , where she is among the women present at the Crucifixion of Jesus:...
  
  , aunt of Jesus
  Jesus
  Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
  
   (1st c.)
• Saint Manaen
  Manahen
  Saint Manahen was a teacher of the Church of Antioch and the foster brother of Herod Antipas....
  
   (Manahen), prophet and teacher of the Church of Antioch (Acts 13:1) (1st c.)
• Hieromartyrs Epitacius, first Bishop of Tui in Galicia (Spain); and Basileus, second Bishop of Braga in Portugal ca.60-95 (1st c.)
• Saint Euphebius
  Euphebius
  Saint Euphebius is venerated as a patron saint and bishop of Naples. Ferdinando Ughelli writes that the date of Euphebius' episcopate cannot be determined with certainty. There is no biography of Euphebius’ life...
  
  , Bishop of Naples in Italy.
• Martyr Salonas the Roman, by the sword.
• Martyr Seleucus (Selefkos), by sawing.
• Martyrs Donatianus and Rogatianus of Nantes
  Nantes
  Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
  
  , brothers (ca.284-305)
• Saint Merculialis of Forli (Mercurialis), Bishop of Forlì, zealous opponent of paganism and Arianism (406)
• Saint Desiderius of Langres, Bishop of Langres in Gaul (407)
• Martyrs Quintianus, Lucius and Julianus
  Quintian, Lucius and Julian
  Quintian , Lucius and Julian are venerated as saints and martyrs by the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Roman Martyrology, they were inhabitants of North Africa who were killed during the persecutions of the Vandal king Huneric , who was an Arian. However, the date of their martyrdom may...
  
  , with 19 other Christians in North Africa during the persecution of the Arian Vandals (430)
• Saint Patricius (Patrice), Bishop of Bayeux in Normandy 464-469 AD (469)
• Saints Eutychius and Florentius, two monks who governed a monastery in Valcastoria near Nursia
  Norcia
  Norcia is a town and comune in the province of Perugia in southeastern Umbria, located in a wide plain abutting the Monti Sibillini, a subrange of the Apennines with some of its highest peaks, near the Sordo River, a small stream that eventually flows into the Nera...
  
  , Italy (540)
• Saint Goban
  St Goban
  Saint Goban , also known as Gobhnena and as Goibhenn of Tigh Scuithin, was an Irish Benedictine monk who served in Tascaffin, County Limerick, Ireland. Little else is known of Goban. He is believed to be the St...
  
   (Gobhnena), Abbot of the monastery of Old Leighlin
  Old Leighlin
  Old Leighlin is a small town in County Carlow, Ireland, 3.5 km west of Leighlinbridge. The site was at one time one of the foremost monastic houses in Leinster, with 1500 monks in residence...
  
  , from where he went to Tascaffin in Co. Limerick
  County Limerick
  It is thought that humans had established themselves in the Lough Gur area of the county as early as 3000 BC, while megalithic remains found at Duntryleague date back further to 3500 BC...
  
  , Ireland (6th/7th c.)
• Hieromartyr Desiderius
  Desiderius of Vienne
  Desiderius of Vienne was archbishop of Vienne and a chronicler.In conflict with Brunhilda of Austrasia, the legitimacy of whose children he had attacked, he was deposed in 603 when she combined forces with Aridius, bishop of Lyon...
  
  , Bishop of Vienne (608)
• Saint Syagrius (Siacre) of Nice, a monk at Lérins Abbey
  Lérins Abbey
  Lérins Abbey is a Cistercian monastery on the island of Saint-Honorat, one of the Lérins Islands, on the French Riviera, with an active monastic community....
  
  , who later founded the monastery of St Pons, at Cimiez
  Cimiez
  Cimiez is a neighborhood in Nice, southern France. The area contains the Musée Matisse and the ruins of Cemenelum, capital of the Ancient Roman province Alpes Maritimae on the Ligurian coast...
  
  , after which he became Bishop of Nice 777-787 (787)
• Saint Michael
  Michael of Synnada
  Michael of Synnada was a bishop of Synnada from 784.Much influenced by Patriarch Tarasios of Constantinople, he carried out diplomatic missions for him and Byzantium. He clashed with the Emperor Leo the Armenian over Leo's policy of iconoclasm, and was exiled, returning under his successor.He is...
  
   the Confessor
  Confessor
  -Confessor of the Faith:Its oldest use is to indicate a saint who has suffered persecution and torture for the faith, but not to the point of death. The term is still used in this way in the East. In Latin Christianity it has come to signify any saint, as well as those who have been declared...
  
  , Bishop of Synnada
  Synnada
  Synnada was an ancient town of Phrygia Salutaris in Asia Minor. Its site is now occupied by the modern Turkish town of Şuhut, in Afyonkarahisar Province...
  
   in Phrygia Salutaris (826)
• Hieromartyr Michael the black-robed, monk of St. Sabbas Monastery
  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...
  
   (9th century)
• Saint Guibertus, a hermit on his own estate of Gembloux in Brabant, Belgium, who retired to the monastery of Gorze
  Gorze Abbey
  Gorze Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Gorze in the present arrondissement of Metz-Campagne, near Metz in Lorraine. It was prominent as the source of a monastic reform movement in the 930s.-History:...
  
   in France (962)
• Saint Damian (Damianos in monasticm), (King Demetrius) of Georgia (1125-1156), Hymnographer (1156)
• Saint Euphrosyne of Polatsk
  Euphrosyne of Polatsk
  Euphrosyne of Polotsk was the granddaughter of a prince of Polotsk, Vseslav....
  
  , princess (1173)
• Saint Simon, Bishop of Suzdal (ca.12th c.)
• Saint Abramios of Yaroslavl, monk and abbot of the Savior Monastery in Yaroslavl
  Yaroslavl
  Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...
  
   (1219)
• Saint Ioannicius I
  Joanikije I
  Joanikije I was the fifth Metropolitan of Peć and Archbishop of Serbs, from when he replaced Archbishop Danilo I in 1272 to 1276.He was a disciple of Archbishop Sava II, when Sava II was still a bishop. Together they went to the Holy Land and the Holy Mountain , from whence they returned to...
  
  , Metropolitan of Peć and Archbishop of Serbia 1272-1276 A.D. (1279)
• Saint Anthony, Bishop of Rostov (1336)
• Saint Cyril, Bishop of Rostov (1384)
• Saint Paisius of Galich
  Galich, Russia
  Galich is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, situated on the southern bank of Lake Galichskoye. It is also a minor railroad node of the Trans-Siberian railway. Population: -History:...
  
  , abbot (1460)
• Saints Adrian and Bogolep of Uglich, monks of St. Paisius of Uglich
  Uglich
  Uglich is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, which stands on the Volga River. Population: A local tradition dates the town's origins to 937. It was first documented in 1148 as Ugliche Pole...
  
   Monastery (late 15th c.)
• Saints Anthony and Joannicius of Zaonikiev Monastery (Vologda) (16th c.)
• Saint Dorotheus of Pskov Lavra, monk and hermit (1622), and Monk Hilarion of the Dormition of the Theotokos monastery near Podolsk (17th-18th c.)
• Saint Alexander, Bishop and Wonderworker of Pereyaslav
  Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi
  Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi is a town located where Alta River flows into Trubizh River in the Kiev Oblast in central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion , the town itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast...
  
   (17th c.)
• Saint Joachim, monk of St. Nicholas monastery of Sartoma (17th c.)
• Synaxis of All Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl (established on March 10, 1964):
• Rostov Wonderworkers: Bishop Leontius (1073); Archimandrite Abraham the wonderworker (1073-1077); Bishop Isaiah
  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....
  
  , wonderworker (1090); Prince Basil (1238); Bishop Ignatius (1288); Peter, Tsarevich of Ordynsk (1290); Bishop James (1391); Archbishop Theodore (1394); Blessed Isidore, Fool-for-Christ (1474); Blessed John of the Hair-Shirt (the Merciful), Fool-for-Christ (1580); Monk Irenarchus the Hermit (1616); Metropolitan Demetrius
  Dimitry of Rostov
  Saint Dimitry of Rostov was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Feofan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Ukrainian influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries...
  
   (1709);
• Yaroslav Wonderworkers: Princes Basil (1249); Constantine (1257); Theodore (1299) and his sons David (1321) and Constantine (XIV);
• Pereslavl Wonderworkers: Monk Nikita the Stylite
  Nikita Stylites
  Venerable Nikita Stylites, a saint of 12th century Russia, led a dissolute life in his youth. However, upon entering a church on a certain occasion he heard the words of the Prophet Isaiah 'Wash you , make you clean;' with this a profound conversion was effected in his soul.Thus converted Nikita...
  
   (1186); Prince Alexander Nevsky
  Alexander Nevsky
  Alexander Nevsky was the Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the city's history. Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Rus, Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military...
  
   (1263); Prince Andrew of Smolensk (15th c.); Monk Daniel the Archimandrite (1540);
• Uglich Wonderworkers: Prince Roman (1285); Monk Paisius (1504); Monk Cassian (1504); Monk Ignatius of Lomsk (1591); Tsarevich Demetrius (1591);
• Poshekhonsk Wonderworkers: Monk Sylvester of Obnora
  Sylvester of the River Obnora
  Sylvester of the Rives Obnora , also known as Sylvester of Obnorsk, was a Russian Orthodox hermit who is recognized as a saint. Sylvester was inspired by the teachings of Sergius of Radonez. He was trained at Trinity Monastery. Sylvester then went as a hermit to live along the banks of the River...
  
   (1379); Monk Sebastian (1542); Hieromartyr Adrian
  Adrian of Poshekhon
  Venerable Adrian of Poshekhonye was a Russian Orthodox monk and iconographer, who was the founder and first igumen of the Dormition monastery in Poshekhonye, north Yaroslavl region. He is commemorated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church....
  
   (1550); Monk Gennadius of Liubimograd and Kostroma (1565).

Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics (1164) of St. Leontius, Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov (1073)
• Saint Athanasius of Novolotsk, fool-for-Christ (16th/17th c.)
• Hieromartyr Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of Uglich, during the Polish–Muscovite War (1608)
• Repose of Hieromonk Damascene of Valaam (1825)
• Repose of Hieroschemamonk Meletius of Svir, disciple of Elder Theodore of Svir (1877)
• Repose of Nun Euphrosyne, disciple of St. Barsanuphius of Optina (1934)
• Restitution of the holy 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 of Saint Joachim of Ithaca
  St. Joachim of Ithaca
  Saint Joachim of Ithaca also known as Saint Joachim of Vatopaedi or Saint Papoulakis was born in 1786 as Ioannis Patrikios near Polyktoria, a region in the island of Ithaca, Greece, where his father, Angelos Patrikios, was based as a Captain. Agne, his mother, was a devout Orthodox Christian but...
  
   (1868)

Sources

• May 23/June 5. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• June 5/May 23. 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 23. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
• Saints of the Kyivan Baroque Period. Ukrainian Orthodoxy.
• May 23. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 23. The Roman Martyrology.

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