May 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 23.

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

 * Saint Lucius of Cyrene (1st century)
 * 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