May 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 3

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 19.

Saints

 * Martyrs Hesperos (Exuperius) and Zoe, and their sons Cyriacos and Theodoulos, at Attalia (c. 124)
 * Saint Jordan the Wonderworker
 * Saint Sabbas, Bishop of Dafnousia
 * Saint Boris-Michael, Prince and baptizer of Bulgaria, Equal-to-the-Apostles (907)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Valentine, Bishop of Genoa in Italy c. 295-307, (c. 307)
 * Saint Germanus of Normandy, converted by St Germanus of Auxerre, martyred in France (c. 460)
 * Hieromartyrs Vindemialis, Eugene and Longinus, Bishops in North Africa martyred by the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (c. 485)
 * Saint Neachtain, a relative of St Patrick of Ireland at whose repose he was present (5th century)
 * Saint Ultan, Irish monk, brother of Saints Fursey and Foillan (657)
 * Saint Waldebert (Walbert, Gaubert), abbot of Luxeuil in France (c. 668)
 * Saint Bertinus the Younger, Benedictine monk at Sithin, in France (699)
 * Saint Felix of Seville, deacon and martyr in Seville, Spain, under the Muslims.
 * Martyr Wiborada, anchoress of St. Gallen Abbey in Germany (926)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * St. Athanasius of Syandem and Valaam (c. 1550)
 * Patriarch Athanasius III Patelaros, of Constantinople, from Lubensk (Lubny), Wonderworker (1654)
 * Blessed Basil of Kadom, fool-for-Christ (1848)
 * Saint Matrona the Blind, the Righteous Wonderworker of Moscow (1952)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics of Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria (Athanasios the Great) (373)
 * Translation of the relics (1072 and 1115) of the holy passion-bearers Boris and Gleb (in holy baptism Romanus and David) (1015)
 * Icon of the Theotokos of Putivilsk (1238, 1635)