May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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May 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4
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 (Maura), at Antinoöpolis, Egypt (304)[1][2][3][4][5]
- Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning (285-305)[1][4][6][note 2] (see also April 29)
- Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Byzantium (313)[8] (see also June 10)
- Great Martyr Xenia the Wonderworker, of Kalamata, Peloponnesus (318)[1][9][10][11]
- Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire[12]
- Saint Mamai, Catholicos of Georgia (744)[1][13][14]
- Saints Michael and Arsenius of Ulompo, Georgia (9th century)[1][15][16]
- Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, Peloponnese (925)[1][17][18]
- Saint Oecumenius (Ecumenius, Ekoumenios) the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trikala (Tricca) (10th century)[19][20]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (c. 106-115)[21][22]
- Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (c. 113-119)[4][21][note 3]
- Saint Juvenal of Narni (c. 369/377)[4][21][24]
- Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th century)[21]
- Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of Saint Columba (563)[21]
- Saint Adalsindis, sister of Saint Waldalenus, founder of the Monastery of Bèze in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze (c. 680)[21]
- Saint Æthelwine (Elwin, Ethelwin), Bishop of Lindsey (c. 700)[21]
- Saint Philip of Worms (770) (Philip of Zell)[21][25]
- Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)[1][21]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Far Caves Monastery, and Founder of Cenobitic Monasticism in Russia (1074)[1][26][27]
- Saint Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th century)[1][28]
- Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow.[1]
- Saint Gregory, Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott of Kamennoi Monastery (Monastery of the Transfiguration) at Kubenski Lake, in Vologda province) (1416)[1][29][note 4]
- Martyr Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)[1][30][31]
- Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th century)[1][32]
- Saints Silas (1783), Paisius and Nathan (1784), monks of Putna Monastery, Moldova.[1]
- New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821)[33]
- Saint Irodion (Ionescu) of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)[1][34][note 5]
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics (1011) of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion (953)[1][37][38][note 6][note 7] (see also: February 7 - feast day)
- Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople, to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)[1][28][40][note 8]
- "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)[1][41][note 9]
- Finding of the relics (2018) of Saint John (Vilenskiy) of Yaroslavl (1918)[42] (see also: October 28)
Icon gallery
St. Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis.
Pope Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (8th-c. fresco from Santa Maria Antiqua)
Church of St. Juvenal of Narni (Chiesa di San Giovenale, a Narni).
St. Ansfried of Utrecht and his wife Hereswint (or Hilsondis), founders of the abbey of Thorn (Limburg, Netherlands) on two stainded glass windows (1956).
St. Theodosius of Kiev.
St. Gregory, Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake.
St. Luke of Steiris (Hosios Loukas)
Kiev-Pechersk Icon of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God.
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Notes
- 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"). - 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).[23] (The identification of the martyr Alexander with the Pope was removed from the Roman Calendar by Pope John XXIII in 1960.)
- See: (in Russian) Григорий Премудрый. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- See: (in Romanian) Irodion Ionescu. Wikipedia. (Romanian Wikipedia).
- On May 2-3, 2026, the Holy Monastery of St. Luke (Hosios Loukas) in Steiris, Greece, commemorated the 1,015th anniversary of the translation of the relics of St. Luke the Younger and the consecration of its Byzantine katholikon. The abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Luke, Archimandrite Seraphim (Pavlidis), expressed his gratitude and blessings to the clergy and faithful.[38]
At the conclusion, Metropolitan George (Mantzouranis) of Thebes gave a brief address about the translation of the saint’s relics, also noting that 2026 marks 40 years since the return of the saint’s relic from Italy to the monastery in 1986, after an absence of 526 years (i.e. since 1460).[38] - "Tradition has it that the Hosios' holy relics had been removed during the 13th century by the Crusaders and had been taken to the Vatican. They later surfaced in Venice accompanied by the following legend:
- when the Turks conquered Boeotia in 1460, a group of monks, carrying the Hosios' relics, found refuge on the island of Lefkada. After the island fell to the Turks, the relics were transported to Bosnia.
- In July 1463, Bosnia also fell to the Turks and Franciscan monks transported the holy relics to Venice.
- On the 11th October 1986, after 526 years and coordinated efforts by the Diocese of Thebes and Levadia (including Archimandrite Christophoros Rakintzakis), and local officials, a delegation headed by the Bishop of Thebes and Levadia Ieronymos (Liapis), the ex-bishop Nikodimos (Graikos), the then abbot of the Monastery Nikodimos, and the then dean and current abbot Georgios, collected the holy relics and replaced them in the reliquary of the Katholikon at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, on the 13th December 1986."[39]
- See: (in Russian) Киево-Печерская икона Успения Божией Матери. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- See: (in Russian) Свенская Печерская икона Божией Матери. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).