Saints

• Martyr Evellius
  Evellius
  Evellius was an early Christian martyr. He was a counselor to Nero, but was eventually martyred at Pisa after he converted to Christianity.-Notes:...
  
  , under Nero (66)
• Martyrs Maximus, Bassus, and Fabius (284-305)
• Hieromartyr Anthimus of Rome
  Anthimus of Rome
  Saint Anthimus of Rome is a Christian saint. His life is largely composed of legend. He is said to have been born in Bithynia. A Christian priest, he was imprisoned for his beliefs at the time of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian...
  
  , and martyrs Sisinius the deacon with Diocletius and Florentius (disciples of St. Anthimus), (284-305)
• Hieromartyr Mocius
  Mocius
  Mocius , also known as "the Holy Hieromartyr", was a priest in Amphipolis, Macedonia who became an Orthodox saint. Of Roman ancestry, he destroyed a statue of the god Dionysus and was beheaded. His feast day is May 11....
  
   (Mucius), presbyter of Amphipolis
  Amphipolis
  Amphipolis was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day region of Central Macedonia. It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea. Founded in...
  
   in Macedonia, beheaded in Byzantium (288)
• Martyr Armodius
• Martyr Acacius of Lower Moesia
  Moesia
  Moesia was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River. It included territories of modern-day Southern Serbia , Northern Republic of Macedonia, Northern Bulgaria, Romanian Dobrudja, Southern Moldova, and Budjak .-History:In ancient...
  
  
• Saint Principia of Rome, a holy virgin in Rome and disciple of St Marcella
  Saint Marcella
  Marcella is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. She was a Christian ascetic in ancient Rome. Growing up in Rome, she was influenced by her pious mother, Albina, an educated woman of wealth and benevolence. Childhood memories centered around piety, and one in particular related to Athanasius,...
  
   (420)
• Saint Mammertus
  Mamertus
  Saint Mamertus was the Archbishop of Vienne in Gaul and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. His primary contribution to ecclesiastical practice was the introduction of litanies prior to Ascension Day as an intercession against earthquakes and other disasters, leading to "Rogation Days." His...
  
  , Archbishop of Vienne (475)
• Saint Possessor of Verdun, Bishop of Verdun
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Verdun
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Verdun is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church, in France. Currently a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Besançon, the diocese corresponds to the department of Meuse in the Region of Lorraine. The diocese is subdivided into 577 parishes.-History:The...
  
  , he and his flock were greatly troubled by the barbarian invasions of Franks, Vandals and Goths (ca.486)
• Saint Tudy
  Tudy of Landevennec
  Tudy of Landevennec was a Breton saint of the 5th or 6th century. He was a hermit who founded monasteries in Brittany and Cornwall. The village of St Tudy in Cornwall is named for him. He may have been a disciple of Saint Mawes , after whom St Mawes is named. His companions may have included Saint...
  
   (Tudinus, Tegwin, Thetgo), a disciple of St Brioc
  Brioc
  Saint Brioc was an early 6th century Welshman who became the first Abbot of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany. He is one of the seven founder saints of Brittany.Very little is known about his early life, as his 9th century 'life' is not altogether reliable...
  
   in Brittany (5th c.)
• Saint Gangulphus
  Gangulphus
  Saint Gangulphus of Burgundy is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church. Gangulphus was a Burgundian courtier whose historical existence can only be attested by a single document: a deed from the court of Pepin the Short dated 762...
  
   (760)
• Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , Equal-to-the-Apostles
  Equal-to-apostles
  An equal-to-the-apostles is a special title given to some canonized saints in Eastern Orthodoxy. It is also used by Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in communion with Rome...
  
   and enlighteners of the Slavs (869, 885)
• Saints Clement of Ohrid
  Clement of Ohrid
  Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...
  
  , Sabbas, Angelarius, Gorazd, and Naum of Preslav — Disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius and missionaries of the Slavs, Wonderworkers
  Thaumaturgy
  Thaumaturgy is the capability of a saint or magician to work miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking...
  
   and Equal-to-the-Apostles
  Equal-to-apostles
  An equal-to-the-apostles is a special title given to some canonized saints in Eastern Orthodoxy. It is also used by Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in communion with Rome...
  
   (9th c.)
• Saint Fremund
  Saint Fremund
  -History:Legend has it that Fremund was a son of King Offa of Mercia. However he gave up his royal life to become a hermit and sailing with twelve companions from Caerleon-on-Usk, eventually landed on an island called "llefaye" where they established a hermitage...
  
   of Dunstable, Anglo-Saxon hermit, killed by his kinsman Oswy with the help of Danish invaders who had also murdered King Edmund (866)
• Saint Rostislav
  Rastislav
  Rastislav or Rostislav was the second known ruler of Moravia . Although he started his reign as vassal to Louis the German, king of East Francia, he consolidated his rule to the extent that after 855 he was able to repel a series of Frankish attacks...
  
   the Prince of Great Moravia, Confessor of the Faith
  Confessor of the Faith
  The title Confessor, the short form of Confessor of the Faith, is a title given by the Christian Church to a type of saint.-Western Christianity:...
  
   (870)
• Saint Odo of Cluny
  Odo of Cluny
  Saint Odo of Cluny , a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny. He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac monastery system of France and Italy....
  
  , the second Abbot of Cluny
  Cluny Abbey
  Cluny Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was built in the Romanesque style, with three churches built in succession from the 10th to the early 12th centuries....
  
   (942)
• Saint Mayeul
  Majolus of Cluny
  Saint Majolus of Cluny was an abbot of Cluny. As a youth Majolus fled his family's estates near Rietz to stay with relatives at Mâcon due to the Muslim invasions. Majolus studied at Lyon and later became archdeacon of Mâcon.Offered the bishopric of Besançon, he became a monk of Cluny instead...
  
   (Majolus, Maieul), Abbot of Cluny
  Cluny Abbey
  Cluny Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was built in the Romanesque style, with three churches built in succession from the 10th to the early 12th centuries....
  
   (994)
• Saint Odilo of Cluny (1049)
• Martyrs Olympia, abbess of Mytilene, and nun Euphrosyne (1235)
• Saint Sophronius of the Kiev Caves, recluse
  Recluse
  A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society, often close to nature. The word is from the Latin recludere, which means "shut up" or "sequester." There are many potential reasons for becoming a recluse: a personal philosophy that rejects consumer society; a...
  
   (13th c.)
• Saint Nicodemus of Pec
  Saint Nikodim I
  Nikodim I of Peć was the 10th Metropolitan of Peć and Archbishop of Serbs from 1316 to 1324, he died in the year 1325. He is a Serbian saint and the Orthodox Church celebrates his feast day on May 11/24.-Life:...
  
  , Archbishop of Serbia (1324)
• Hieromartyr Joseph, first Metropolitan of Astrakhan
  Astrakhan
  Astrakhan is a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on the left bank of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of below the sea level. Population:...
  
   (1672)
• New Martyrs Dioscorus (Dioscorides) and Argyrus (Argyrus, Argyres) of Thessalonica (1806/1808)
• Blessed Christopher of Georgia (called Christesias), monk at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, at the David Gareja monastery complex, "The Thebaid
  Thebaid
  The Thebaid or Thebais is the region of ancient Egypt containing the thirteen southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan. It acquired its name from its proximity to the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes....
  
   of Georgia" (1771/1871)
• Saint Theophylact, bishop of Stavropol
  Stavropol
  -International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **...
  
   and Ekaterinodar
  Krasnodar
  Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia, located on the Kuban River about northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai . Population: -Name:...
  
   (1872)
• New Hieromartyr Michael, priest (1920)
• New Hieromartyr Alexander (Petrovsky), archbishop of Kharkov
  Kharkiv
  Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
  
   (1940)

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Founding of Constantinople
  Constantinople
  Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
  
   (330) as Capital of the Roman Empire
  Roman Empire
  The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
  
  

Sources

• May 11/24. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 24 / May 11. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 11. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
• May 11. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 11. The Roman Martyrology.

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