May 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Righteous Job the Long-suffering.
• Martyrs Danax, Mesirus (Mesiurs), and Therin
• Martyrs Demetrius, and Donatus
• Saints Mamas, Pachomius, and Hilarion, monks
• Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier (Barbaruldier), Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea (362)
• Martyr Barbarus in Thessaly, the former robber (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus and seventy-five others in Africa (284–305)
• St. Benedicta, virgin, mystic and nun, lived in a convent founded by St. Galla in Rome (6th century)
• Saint Edbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698)
• Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino (c. 747)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saint

• Saint Vladimir II Monomakh (Volodymyr Monomakh), Sovereign of Kievan Rus' (1125)
• Venerable Micah (Micheas), the disciple of the Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1385)
• Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century): :* 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)
• Saint Seraphim of Mt. Domvu (Seraphim of Livadeia) (1602)
• Venerable Job of Pochaev, abbot and wonderworker (1651)
• Blessed Sophia of Kleisoura (Myrtidiotissa in Schema), the ascetic of Kleisoura, Fool-for-Christ (1974) (see also: April 23. )

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics (1238) of Saint Sava, first archbishop of Serbia (1235)
• Translation of the relics (1675) of Saint Pachomius of Nerekhta (1384)
• Commemoration of Theophylact Lopatinsky, Archbishop of Tver, Defender of Orthodoxy (1741)
• Birthday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II

Icon gallery

File:Icon of Job (North Russia, 17 c.).jpg|Righteous Job the Long-suffering. File:Ivan Bilibin 118.gif|St. Vladimir II Monomakh. File:Jov.jpg|St. Job of Pochayiv.

Notes

References

Sources

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints (POMOG)
• May 6/19, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 19 / May 6 , HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• May 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 6, The Roman Martyrology. Greek Sources
• Great Synaxaristes: 6 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 6 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources
• 19 мая (6 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 6 мая (ст.ст.) 19 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

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21. {{in lang. el ''[http://ahdoni.blogspot.gr/2012/07/i.html Η οσία Σοφία της Κλεισούρας και η δια Χριστόν σαλότητα στην Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία].'' AHDONI (blogspot). Σάββατο, 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013. Retrieved: 21 December 2013.
22. According to the [[Old Calendarists. Old Calendarist]] [[Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance)]], "the holy Eldress received the [[Great Schema#Great Schema. Great and Angelic Schema]] in October of 1971 — her name being changed from Sophia to the '''Nun Myrtidiotissa''' — from the hand of Archimandrite Father [[Kyprianos Koutsoumpas. Cyprian]] (later the Old Calendarist Metropolitan of [[Oropos. Óropos]] and [[Fyli. 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 [[Oinousses. Oinoússes]], on the island of Chíos."Bishop Κlémes of Gardíkion. ''[http://www.synodinresistance.org/pdfs/2012/06/26/E20120626aThaymaMyrtos6-12.pdf 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. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=FwxKAAAAMAAJ A History of the Church of Russia].'' Transl. Rev. R. W. Blackmore. John Henry Parker, 1842. pp.404-405.
24. [https://archive.today/20120629050507/http://www.pomog.org/index.html?http://www.pomog.org/saintlist.shtml Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints] (POMOG)