May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (381)

Saints

• Righteous Melchizedek, King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) (c. 2000 BC)
• Martyr Sophia the Healer.
• Martyr Marcellus, by being placed in molten lead.
• Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), by being dragged by horses.
• Martyr Basiliscus of Comana (c. 285-305) with Eutropius and Cleonicus
• Saint Donatus of Thmuis, Bishop and Martyr (316)
• Saint John Vladimir, King of Serbia, Martyr, Wonderworker (1015)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Ausonius, first Bishop of Angoulême (1st or 3rd century)
• Saint Marcian of Ravenna, Bishop and Confessor (c. 127)
• Martyrs Castus and Emilius, by fire, in Carthage (250)
• Martyrs Timothy, Faustinus and Venustus, in Rome, under Julian the Apostate (362)
• 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)
• Saint Helen of Auxerre (c. 418)
• Saint Julia of Corsica the martyr, who was crucified (5th century)
• Saint Quiteria the virgin-martyr, in Spain (5th century)
• Saint Romanus of Subiaco (Romanus of Auxerre), ascetic who ministered to Saint Benedict of Nursia (560)
• Saint Fulk (c. 600)
• Saint Boethian of Pierrepont (near Laon), Irish, Benedictine monk, martyred in France (7th century)
• 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)
• Saint John of Parma, abbot of Saint John's at Parma from 973 to c. 982, then under Cluniac observance (c. 982)
• Saint Bobo (Beuvon), hermit (c. 985)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Kali of Asia Minor (c. 14th century)
• New Hieromartyr Zachariah of Prussa (1802)
• Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi (Novgorod), Wonderworker (1540)
• New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos (1803)
• Venerable Monk-martyr Paul of Mt. Athos, at Tripolis, Peloponnesus (1818)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Michael Borisov, priest (1942)

Other commemorations

• Synaxis of the Cyprus Icon ("Sophianois" Icon) of the Most Holy Mother of God.
• Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1816)
• Repose of Eldress Macrina of Volos (1995)

Icon gallery

File:Council of Constantinople 381-stavropoleos church.jpg|The First Council of Constantinople (381), wall painting at the church of Stavropoleos, Bucharest, Romania. File:Council of Constantinople 381 BnF MS Gr510 fol355.jpg|First Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (381). File:Abraham meets Melchisedech (San Marco).jpg|Abraham meets Melchisedech (Mosaic in Basilica di San Marco). File:Sacrifices of Abel, Melchisedec and Abraham - Sant'Apollinare in Classe - Ravenna 2016 (2).jpg|Mosaic of Melchisedech, Abraham and Abel (Ravenna - Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe). File:Biserica de lemn Sf.Arhangheli din Libotin (13).JPG|Icon of Melchizedek, in Libotin wooden church, Maramureș, Romania. File:JovanVladimirSlika.jpg|St. Jovan Vladimir. File:Shën Gjon Vladimiri me skena nga jeta e tij.jpg|Saint Jovan Vladimir, a 1739 icon from the Ardenica Monastery in Albania, was painted by Kostandin Shpataraku. File:Meaux Vitrail 1867 30808 2.jpg|Stained glass windows of Saint Julia of Corsica. File:SaintQuiteria.jpg|Virgin Martyr Saint Quiteria.

Notes

References

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