May 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Old Calendar.[note 1]

For May 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 23.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox Saint

  • Romilus of Ravanica; Romanus of Djunisa; Sisoes of Sinai and Sisojevac; Martyrius of Rukumije; Gregory of Gornjak; Zosimas of Tuman; and Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos)

Other commemorations

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Notes

  1. New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar
    (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. St Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv.[13]
  3. ^ These are commemorated on May 19 in the Greek Menaion.[15]
  4. née Saoulidi) of Kleisoura, or Sophia the Righteous. Saint Sophia lived as an ascetic in an abandoned monastery in Kleisoura, Western Macedonia, Greece. She died on May 6th, 1974. On October 4, 2011, she was canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.[19]
  5. Great and Angelic Schema in October of 1971 — her name being changed from Sophia to the Nun Myrtidiotissa — from the hand of Archimandrite Father Cyprian (later the Old Calendarist Metropolitan of Óropos and Phylé), Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Sts. Cyprian and Justina in Phyle, Áttica (Athens), Greece. Serving as her sponsor was the now reposed nun, Eldress Maria Myrtidiotissa, Foundress and Abbess of the Holy Convent of the Annunciation of the Theotókos, in Oinoússes, on the island of Chíos."[22]

    According to John Sanidopoulos (M.T.S, Th.M), administrator of the weblog Mystagogy, "from the time when the Ecclesiastical Calendar changed in Greece, Sophia would keep the fasts of both the Old and New Calendar so as not to be an offense to anyone. Unfortunately there is a tendency among Old Calendarists to distort facts and consider her one of their own, but this does not conform to reality as she was always in communion with the Church."
  6. ^ Saint Sophia of Kleisoura's repose occurred on the date of May 6th. Therefore, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar celebrate her feast day together with the Saints of April 23rd, which are commemorated by them on the calendar day of May 6th, thus observing her feast day on April 23rd.
  7. Theophanes Procopovich being the first). In 1728 he published a book against "The Lutheran and Calvinistic Heresies," in defense of the "Rock of Faith" of Stephen Yavorsky, which as well as that work gave great offense to the Duke Biron, and subjected its author to various persecutions, and to imprisonment as a common lay person for five years, till the death of the Empress Anne and the fall of Biron, which took place in 1740, when he was set at liberty, and publicly reinstated by the synod in full assembly, but died of paralysis before he could resume the charge of his diocese. He left behind him another work in MS. under the following title: "A Rejoinder to the Answer of Franciscus Buddeus, addressed to a friend living at Moscow, on the Lutheran heresy, against the book of the late Most Reverend Metropolitan of Riazan entitled the Rock of Faith." "[23]

References

  1. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰὼβ ὁ Προφήτης ὁ Δίκαιος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  2. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δάναξ, Μέσιρος καὶ Θερίνος οἱ Μάρτυρες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  3. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημητρίων ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  4. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Δονάτος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  5. ^ Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἱλαρίων, Μάμας καὶ Παχώμιος. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  6. ^ a b c d e May 6/19, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  7. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Βάρβαρος ὁ Μάρτυρας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  8. ^ a b c d May 6, The Roman Martyrology.
  9. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἡλιόδωρος καὶ Βενοῦστος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς μαρτυρήσαντες. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  10. ^ Ἡ Ὁσία Βενεδίκτη ἡ Ρωμαία. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  11. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐαντβέρτος ἐκ Σκωτίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  12. ^ May 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  13. ^ a b c Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
  14. ^ a b c May 19 / May 6 , HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  15. ^ Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ρωμύλος, Ρωμανός, Νέστωρ, Σισώης, Γρηγόριος, Νικόδημος καὶ Κύριλλος οἱ Σιναΐτες. 19 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  16. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεραφείμ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  17. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰὼβ ἐκ Ρωσίας. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  18. ^ (in Russian) 6 мая (ст.ст.) 19 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
  19. ^ a b Very Rev. Dr. Edward Pehanich. St. Sophia the Righteous. American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. Retrieved: 21 December 2013.
  20. ^ (in Greek) Οσία Σοφία η εν Κλεισούρα ασκήσασα. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. 06/05/2013.
  21. ^ (in Greek) Η οσία Σοφία της Κλεισούρας και η δια Χριστόν σαλότητα στην Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία. AHDONI (blogspot). Σάββατο, 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013. Retrieved: 21 December 2013.
  22. ^ Bishop Κlémes of Gardíkion. A MIRACLE OF THE HOLY ELDRESS SAINT MYRTIDIOTISSA, THE ASCETIC OF KLEISSOURA († 1974). Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Greece - Holy Synod in Resistance. June 12/25, 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  23. ^ Andrew Nicholaevich Mouravieff. A History of the Church of Russia. Transl. Rev. R. W. Blackmore. John Henry Parker, 1842. pp.404-405.
  24. ^ Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints (POMOG)

Sources

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 6 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 6 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

  • (in Russian) 19 мая (6 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • (in Russian) 6 мая (ст.ст.) 19 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
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