May 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 18

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For May 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 4.

Saints

• Apostles Andronicus of Pannonia and his fellow labourer Junia, of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)^{[1][note 2]}
• Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon, soldiers, at Chalcedon (c. 286-305)^[3][4]
• Martyrs Adrion, Victor and Basilla, in Alexandria.^[4][5]
• Saint Theodoret of Antioch, Hieromartyr, (361–363)^[6]
• Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th century)^{[7][note 3]} (see also: May 25, June 2)
• Saint Stephen the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (893)^[8][9]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Restituta the martyr, in Carthage (255 or 304)^[4][10]
• Martyrs Heradius, Paul, and Aquilinus, near Lake Geneva (284-305)^[4][11][12]
• Saint Maden (Madern, Madron, Madrona) (c. 545)^[12][13]
• Saint Cathán (Catan, Chattan, Cadan), Bishop in the Isle of Bute in Scotland (6th century)^[12]
• Saint Mailduf (Maidulph, Maelduib), founder of Malmesbury Abbey (673)^[12][14]
• Saint Gerebernus (Gerebern, Gerebrand), Hieromartyr, priest from Ireland who accompanied St Dymphna to Belgium and shared in her martyrdom (7th century)^[12]
• Saint Rasso (Ratho), ascetic, founder of a Benedictine abbey at Wörth, later named Grafrath after him (953)^[12]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Andronik the Grave-Digger, of the Kyivan Zverynetsky Monastery (1096)^[15]
• Venerable Eudoxia of Moscow^[16] (in monasticism Euphrosyne),^[17] Grand-Duchess of Moscow (1407)^{[18][19][note 4]}
• Saints Nectarius (1550) and Theophanes (1544) the gate-keepers, brothers, of Meteora^[20]
• Great-martyr Nicholas of Sofia (1555)^[21]
• Saint Nicolas (Basdanis) the New Martyr (St Nicolas the Vlach) (1617)^{[22][23][note 5]}
• Saint Athanasius the New, Bishop and Wonderworker of Christianoupolis (1707 or 1735)^[8][24]
• Saint Jonah Atamansky, Archpriest of Odessa, Wonderworker (1924)^{[8][25][note 6]}

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Fall of Jerusalem in 614 AD to the Persians, with the loss of the True Cross to Persia, damage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by fire, and the martyrdom of over 65,000 Christians (614)^{[26][27][note 7]}
• Translation of the relics (1551) of Saint Adrian of Ondrusov (Valaam), Abbot (1549)^[8][28]

Icon gallery

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  St. Andronicus of Pannonia (left) with St. Junia (right), and St. Athanasius of Christianoupolis (center).
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  Seal of "Stephen, Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome" - i.e. either of Stephen I or II.
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  Mosaic of the Theotokos and Christ child, between St. and St. Restituta (Naples Cathedral - Chapel of St. Restituta).
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  Church of Saint Gerebernus in Punt, Geel, Antwerp, Belgium.
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  Lithograph of St. Rasso of Andechs.
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  Shrine of St. Eudoxia of Moscow.
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  St. Adrian of Ondrusov.

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. The Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles in celebrated on January 4.^[2]
3. Two other sources list the feast day of Saint Dodo (disciple of Saint David of Georgia) as May 20:

   • Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
   • St. Dodo, May 20. Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch. (Oriental Orthodox)

   But both sources are not Orthodox: first is the site of non-canonical dissident schism, second is the site of non-Chalcedon Syriac Church
4. She is also commemorated on July 7, the day of her repose.
5. The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate formally canonized Nicolas Basdanis as a saint of the Universal Church on November 28, 1988. He is commemorated on that date, and on that of his martyrdom - May 17.
6. Fr. Jonah, a married priest, did his all-night Akathist vigils daily from midnight to daybreak. His prayers cured the blind and cast out demons from the possessed. When Moscow doctors told an Odessa mother they could do nothing for her son who was born blind, St. Jonah prayed over his bed all night for nine days and on the morning of the tenth day, the boy could see with 20/20 vision. St. Jonah was taken to court by the Bolsheviks but the chief ophthalmologist of Moscow came to his defence. A great man of prayer, he is also highly venerated in Romania and elsewhere.^[15]
7. Following the Sassanid King Khosrau II's early 7th-century push into the Byzantine Empire, advancing through Syria, the Sassanid Generals Shahrbaraz and Shahin attacked the Byzantine-controlled city of Jerusalem. They were aided by the Jews of Palestine, who had risen up against the Byzantines.^[27] According to the account by the 7th-century monk Antiochus Strategos, Abbott of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, the total number of Christian martyrs "was 66,509 souls";^[27] according to the account in the Great Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church the total was "80,000" Christian martyrs.^[26]