May 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 14 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 16

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 28 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For May 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 2.

Saints

• The Seven Apostolic Men, Martyr Bishops, ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain (1st century):

• Saints Torquatus, Ctesiphon, Secundus, Indaletius, Caecilius, Hesychius, and Euphrasius^[1][2][3]

• Saint Achillius (Achillios), Bishop of Larissa (330)^[4][5]
• Saint Pachomius the Great, founder of cenobitic monasticism (348)^[6][7]
• Saint Silvanus of Tabennisi, disciple of Saint Pachomius the Great (in the Thebaid) (4th century)^[8]
• Saint Pyrrhus of Breti, one of Thirteen Assyrian Fathers (6th century)^[9]
• Saint Barbarus the Myrrh-gusher of Greece (c. 820– 829)^[10]
• Saint Panegyrios of Cyprus (Panigerios, Panegyrius), Wonderworker of Malounta^{[11][12][note 2]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Liberator, bishop, martyr (130)^[13]
• Saint Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Denise (150)
• Martyrs Cassius, Victorinus, Maximus, and their companions, in the Auvergne (Clermont) in France (c. 264)^{[2][3][note 3]}
• Saint Eutychius of Ferento, bishop, martyr (270)^[14]
• Martyr Simplicius of Olbia, Bishop, in Sardinia (c. 284–305)^[2][3][15]
• Saint Sophia of Rome (303)
• Virgin recluse Caesarea of Otranto^[3]
• Saint Reticius, bishop of Autun (4th century)^[16]
• Saint Kaleb of Axum, king (542)
• Saint Severin of Sanseverino, Bishop of Settempeda (545)
• Saint Hilary of Galeata (Hilary of Tuscany), founder of the monastery called Galeata, later known as Sant'Ilaro (Sant'Ellero di Galeata) (558)^[3][17]
• Saint Colmán of Oughaval (Colman mac Ua Laoighse, Colman Mc O'Laoighse), a disciple of St Columba and St Fintan of Clonenagh (6th century)^{[3][note 4]}
• Virgin-martyr Dymphna of Geel, Flanders (c. 650)^{[2][3][18][19][20]}
• Saint Gerebern (Gerebarn), presbyter, martyr (c. 650)^[21]
• Saint Waldalenus, founder of monastery of Bèze in France (7th century)^[3]
• Saint Bercthun (Bertin), a disciple of St John of Beverley and first Abbot of Beverley in England (733)^[3]
• Saint Bertha of Bingen (c. 757), and her son Saint Rupert of Bingen (732)^[3]
• Saint Witesind of Córdoba, martyr (855)^[22]
• Saint Hallvard Vebjørnsson of Husaby (1043)^[23]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Anastasia of Latra^[24]
• Saint Panigirius of Cyprus, Wonderworker^[25]
• Saint Isaiah of Rostov, Bishop and Wonderworker (1090)^[26]
• Saint Isaiah of the Kiev Caves, wonderworker (1115)^[27][28]
• Saint Andrew the Hermit, of Mt. Kalana, Epirus, wonderworker (c. 1237–1271)^[18][29]
• Saint Pachomius [ru] of Nerekhta, abbot (1384),^[30][31] and Saint Silvanus of Nerekhta (1384)^[32]
• Saint Cali of Anatolia (14th century)^[33]
• Saint Euphrosynus of Pskov (Eleazar), abbot and wonderworker (1481)^[34][35]
• Saint Serapion of Pskov, disciple of St Euphrosynus of Pskov (1481)^{[36][37][38][note 5]}
• Saint Ignatius, Charalampius and Pamphilus, brothers and disciples of Euphrosynus of Pskov (15th century)^[39]
• Saint Pachomius of Keno Lake Monastery (1525)^{[40][note 6]}
• Saint Demetrius of Moscow the Wonderworker, Slain Crown Prince (1591)^[43]
• Saint James of Putna, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1778)^[44]
• Saint Elias (Chebotariov) of Verkhoturye, schemamonk (1900)^[45]
• Saint Arethas (Katargin) of Valaam and Verkhoturye, archimandrite (1903)^[18][32][46]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs:

• Archbishop Pachomius (Kedrov) of Chernigov (1938),^{[18][47][note 7]}
• his brother, Archbishop Abercius (Kedrov) of Zhitomir (1937),^[18][48]
• their father, Priest Nicholas Kedrov (1936),^[18][49]
• their brother-in-law, Priest Vladimir Zagarsky (1937)^[18]

Other commemorations

• Discovery of the revered icon of Kamoulianos "Acheiropoieta" ("made without human hands").^{[50][note 8]}
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Kazan-Vysha (1812)^[51]
• Uncovering of the relics (1991) of Saint Arsenius of Konevits^[52]
• Uncovering of the relics (2012) of Saint Elias (Ganzha) of Makeevka^[53]
• Translation of the sacred relics of the Holy Apostle Titus of Crete, from Venice (which had taken the relics in 1669), back to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Crete (1966)^[54][55]
• Uncovering of the relics (1846) of Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783)^{[56][note 9]}

Icon gallery

• 
  Sts. Achillius of Larissa and Pachomius the Great.
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  St. Pachomius the Great.
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  Stained glass of St. Cassius of Clermont.
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  Chair of Saint Hilary of Galeata, in the cell in which the saint used to pray.
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  St. Bertha of Bingen.
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  St. Euphrosynus of Pskov.
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  St. Dmitry of Uglich.
• 
  St. Dmitry of Uglich.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. It is unknown when Saint Panegyrios of Cyprus lived, but from his Devine Service it seems that he had lived during the period of the Arab raids (c. 7th - 12th centuries), when different parts of Cyprus had come under Arab rule at different periods. He taught the Christian way to the Christians and discouraged them from converting to Islam by telling them that Islam as a religion was a delusion.^[12]
3. A group of martyrs in Clermont in Auvergne in France, who suffered at the hands of Chrocas, the leader of invading Teutonic barbarians.
4. He founded and was abbot of a monastery in Oughaval in Ireland. He is still venerated at the nearby Orthodox church at Stradbally which is dedicated to him.
5. His feast day is also observed on September 8.
6. He is commemorated on January 31 in the Slavic Menaion.^[41][42]
7. See: (in Russian) Пахомий (Кедров). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
8. The commemoration of this feast is included in the Codex Athous Lavrensis (8th/9th century)
9. This is observed on May 14 in the Slavonic Menaion.