May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Moura (Maura), at Antinoöpolis, Egypt (304)
• Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning (285-305) (see also April 29)
• Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Byzantium (313) (see also June 10)
• Great Martyr Xenia of Kalamata, Peloponnesus (318)
• Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire
• Saint Mamai, Catholicos of Georgia (744)
• Saints Michael and Arsenius of Ulompo, Georgia (9th century)
• Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, Peloponnese (925)
• Saint Oecumenius (Ecumenius, Ekoumenios) the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trikala (Tricca) (10th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (c. 106-115)
• Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (c. 113-119)
• Saint Juvenal of Narni (c. 369/377)
• Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th century)
• Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of Saint Columba (563)
• Saint Adalsindis, sister of Saint Waldalenus, founder of the Monastery of Bèze in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze (c. 680)
• Saint Æthelwine (Elwin, Ethelwin), Bishop of Lindsey (c. 700)
• Saint Philip of Worms (770) (Philip of Zell)
• Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Far Caves Monastery, and Founder of Cenobitic Monasticism in Russia (1074)
• Saint Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th century)
• Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow
• Saint Gregory Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott of Kamennoi Monastery (Monastery of the Transfiguration) at Kubenski Lake, in Vologda province) (1416)
• Martyr Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)
• Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th century)
• New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821)
• Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Vilensky, Priest of Semyonovskoe (1918)
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Benevolsky, Priest of Alma-Ata (1941)

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion (953)
• Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople, to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)
• "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)
• Finding of the relics of Saint John (Vilenskiy) of Yaroslavl (2018) (see also: October 28)

Icon gallery

File:Petros Archiepiskopos Argous.JPG|St. Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis. File:Papa Alessandro I.jpg|Pope Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome. File:Narni - Chiesa di San Giovenale 7.JPG|Church of St. Juvenal of Narni (Chiesa di San Giovenale, a Narni). File:Abdijkerk Thorn - Ramen H-Ansifridus H-Hilsonidis.jpg|St. Ansfried of Utrecht and his wife Hereswint (or Hilsondis), founders of the abbey of Thorn (Limburg, Netherlands) on two stainded glass windows (1956). File:Feodosij Pecherskij.jpg|St. Theodosius of Kiev.

Notes

References

Sources

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• AN ENGLISH ORTHODOX CALENDAR
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24. [https://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/2878/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος καθηγούμενος τῆς Λαύρας τῶν Σπηλαίων τοῦ Κιέβου]. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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31. [https://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/2883/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀναστασία καὶ Χριστόδουλος οἱ Νεομάρτυρες]. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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