May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 9.

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 Kamani (c. 285-305)
 * 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)