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May 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox Church calendar
Day in the Eastern Orthodox Church calendar
May 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 21
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 7.
Saints
- Saint Lydia of Thyatira (Lydia of Philippi), mentioned in Acts 16:14-15 (1st century)
- Martyrs Thalelaeus the Unmercenary, at Anazarbus in Cilicia, and his companions Alexander and Asterius (284)
- Martyr Asclas of the Thebaid, Egypt (287)
- Sts. Zabulon and Susanna, of Cappadocia and Jerusalem (parents of St. Nina (Nino), enlightener of Georgia), (4th century)
- Saint Mark the Hermit (Marcus Eremita) (5th century)
- Holy Martyrs of Mamilla, Jerusalem (614)
- Saint Thalassius the Myrrh-gusher, of Libya (648)
- Saints John, Joseph and Nicetas, monks of Nea Moni on Chios (c. 1050)
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Plautilla the Roman, martyr, (67)
- Hieromartyr Baudelius, missionary in France and northern Spain, martyred in Nîmes (2nd or 3rd century)
- Virgin-martyr Basilla (304)
- Saint Hilary (Hilarius, Hilaire), Bishop of Toulouse in France (360)
- Saint Anastasius, Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy, in Italy (610)
- Saint Austregisilus (Aoustrille, Outrille), Bishop of Bourges and Confessor (624)
- Saint Theodore of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (778)
- Saint Ethelbert (Albert, Albright), King of East Anglia in England, martyr (794) (see also May 29)
- Saint Alcuin of York, monk (804)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- St. Daumantas (Timothy, Dovmont-Timothy), prince of Pskov (1299)
- Saint Stephen, Abbot of Piperi in Serbia (1697)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Pavel Lazarev, martyred on the feast of Pentecost (1919)
- Venerable Olympiada Verbetska, Igumenia of Kozelschansk women's monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God (1938)
Other commemorations
- Translation of the holy relics (1087) of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (343) (see also: May 9 - Slavonic)
- Uncovering of the relics (1431) of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow, Wonderworker (1378)
- Repose of Schema-monk Cyriacus of Valaam (1798)
Icon gallery
File:Lidia.jpg|St. Lydia of Thyatira. File:Преподобный марк подвижник.jpg|St. Marcus Eremita. File:825PaviaSTeodoro.JPG|Church of St. Theodore of Pavia, in Pavia. File:St Ethelbert the King.jpg|The martyred Anglo-Saxon king Æthelberht II of East Anglia (depiction of a brass plate from Hereford Cathedral). File:Daumantas of Pskov.jpg|St. Daumantas of Pskov. File:Saint Stephen of Piperi.jpg|St. Stephen of Piperi. File:Dionisius 002.jpg|St. Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow.
Notes
References
Sources
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- Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG)
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- Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
- May 20. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
- May 20. The Roman Martyrology. Greek Sources
- Great Synaxaristes: 20 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- Συναξαριστής. 20 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources
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- 20 мая (ст.ст.) 2 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
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