May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) explained

May 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 9.

Feasts

• Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (381)^[1]

Saints

• Righteous Melchizedek, King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) (c. 2000 BC)^[2]
• Martyr Sophia the Healer.^[3]
• Martyr Marcellus, by being placed in molten lead.^[4]
• Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), by being dragged by horses.^[5]
• Martyr Basiliscus of Kamani (c. 285-305)^{[6] [7]}
• Saint Donatus of Thmuis, Bishop and Martyr (316)^[8]
• Saint John Vladimir, King of Serbia, Martyr, Wonderworker (1015)^{[2] [9]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Ausonius, first Bishop of Angoulême (1st or 3rd century)^[10]
• Saint Marcian of Ravenna, Bishop and Confessor (c. 127)^{[7] [11]}
• Martyrs Castus and Emilius, by fire, in Carthage (250)^{[7] [12]}
• Martyrs Timothy, Faustinus and Venustus, in Rome, under Julian the Apostate (362)^{[7] [13]}
• Saint Helen of Carnarvon (Elen Luyddog, Helen of Caernarfon), Princess, a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales, and wife of Emperor Magnus Clemens Maximus (383-388)^[14]
• Saint Helen of Auxerre (c. 418)^{[7] [15]}
• Saint Julia of Corsica the martyr, who was crucified (5th century)^{[7] [16]}
• Saint Quiteria the virgin-martyr, in Spain (5th century)^{[7] [17]}
• Saint Romanus of Subiaco (Romanus of Auxerre), ascetic who ministered to Saint Benedict of Nursia (560)^{[7] [18]}
• Saint Fulk (c. 600)^[19]
• Saint Boethian of Pierrepont (near Laon), Irish, Benedictine monk, martyred in France (7th century)^[20]
• Saint Conall (Conald, Coel), of Inniskeel (Inniscoel, Innis-coel), County Donegal, Abbot of the island monastery of Inniskeel, where there is a holy well dedicated to him (7th century)^[21]
• Saint John of Parma, abbot of Saint John's at Parma from 973 to c. 982, then under Cluniac observance (c. 982)^[19]
• Saint Bobo (Beuvon), hermit (c. 985)^[19]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Kali of Asia Minor (c. 14th century)^[22]
• New Hieromartyr Zachariah of Prussa (1802)^[23]
• Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi (Novgorod), Wonderworker (1540)^{[2] [24]}
• New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos (1803)^[25]
• Venerable Monk-martyr Paul of Mt. Athos, at Tripolis, Peloponnesus (1818)^{[2] [26]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Michael Borisov, priest (1942)^{[27] [28]}

Other commemorations

• Synaxis of the Cyprus Icon ("Sophianois" Icon) of the Most Holy Mother of God.^{[29] [30]}
• Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1816)^{[31] [32]}
• Repose of Eldress Macrina of Volos (1995)^[2]

Sources

• May 22/June 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• June 4 / May 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH(A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar - May. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.
• May 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 22. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 22 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 22 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 4 июня (22 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 22 мая (ст.ст.) 4 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

Notes and References

1. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3314/sxsaintinfo.aspx Μνήμη Β’Οἰκουμενικῆς Συνόδου
2. http://days.pravoslavie.ru/en/Days/20110522.htm May 22/June 4
3. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3322/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ἁγία Σοφία ἡ Μάρτυς ἡ Ἰατρός
4. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3321/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάρκελλος ὁ Μάρτυρας
5. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3320/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Κόδρος ὁ Μάρτυρας
6. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3313/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασιλίσκος ὁ Μάρτυρας
7. http://www.breviary.net/martyrology/mart05/mart0522.htm May 22
8. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3318/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Δονάτος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
9. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3332/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θαυματουργός τοῦ Βλαδιμήρου
10. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3315/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐσόνιος ὁ Ἐπίσκοπος
11. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3316/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Μαρκιανὸς ὁ Ἐπίσκοπος
12. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3317/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ἅγιοι Αἰμίλιος καὶ Κάστος οἱ Μάρτυρες
13. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3319/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τιμόθεος, Φαυστίνος καὶ Βενοῦστος οἱ Μάρτυρες
14. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3323/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ἁγία Ἑλένη ἡ Πριγκίπισσα
15. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3324/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ἁγία Ἑλένη τῆς Ὡξέρρης
16. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3325/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ἁγία Ἰουλία ἡ Μάρτυς
17. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3326/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ἁγία Κουϊτερία ἡ Μάρτυς
18. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3327/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ρωμανὸς ὁ Ἀσκητής
19. http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdmay.htm May 22
20. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3328/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Βοηθιανὸς ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας
21. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3329/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Κονάλδος
22. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3330/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἡ Ὁσία Καλή
23. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3334/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ὁ Νέος
24. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3333/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ Δίκαιος
25. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3335/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Πελοποννήσιος
26. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3336/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Παῦλος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας
27. http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2011&today=4&month=6&trp=0&tzo=-4 June 4 / May 22
28. 22 мая (ст.ст.) 4 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
29. http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3331/sxsaintinfo.aspx Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Σοφιανοῖς
30. http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=101465 Icon of the Mother of God of Cyprus
31. https://archive.today/20120629050507/http://www.pomog.org/index.html?http://www.pomog.org/saintlist.shtml Complete List of Saints
32. http://www.orthodox.net/menaion/may.html Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar - May