May 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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)