Saints

• Saint Domitilla
  Flavia Domitilla (saint)
  Flavia Domitilla was daughter of Domitilla the Younger by an unknown father, perhaps Quintus Petillius Cerialis. She married her cousin, the consul Titus Flavius Clemens.-In Roman literature:...
  
   the martyr (ca.81-96)
• Saints Nereus and Achilleus the martyrs (100)
• Saint Philip of Agira
  Philip of Agira
  Saint Philip of Agira was an early Christian confessor. There are two parallel stories of this saint which give to possible dates in which this saint lived. Traditionally, through the writings of St...
  
   the Hieromartyr (103)
  • Martyr Pancratius of Rome (304)
  • Martyr Dionysius (Denis), uncle of St. Pancratius (304)
  • Saint Dracontius, Bishop of Nicaea (ca.1st-3rd. c.)
  • Saint Epiphanius
    Epiphanius of Salamis
    Epiphanius of Salamis was bishop of Salamis at the end of the 4th century. He is considered a saint and a Church Father by both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. He gained a reputation as a strong defender of orthodoxy...
    
    , Bishop of Salamis
    Salamis, Cyprus
    Salamis was an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta. According to tradition the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his...
    
     and Metropolitan of Cyprus (403)
  • Saint Calliope (Callitropos), nun, sister of St. Epiphanius of Cyprus.
  • Saint Sabinus, Archbishop of Cyprus (successor of St. Epiphanius to the Cypriot cathedra) (5th c.)
  • Saint Polybius, Bishop of Cyprus, Wonderworker (5th c.)
  • Saint Díoma, teacher of St Declan of Ardmore, patron-saint of Kildimo
    Kildimo
    Kildimo is a village in County Limerick, Ireland. The village is located on the N69 National Route about 13 km west of Limerick city close to the River Shannon estuary....
    
     in Co. Limerick in Ireland (5th c.)
  • Saint Modoald
    Saint Modoald
    Saint Modoald, also known as Romoald, was the Frankish archbishop of Trier from 626-645. He is the patron saint of the Reichsabtei Helmarshausen and his liturgical feast is on May 12....
    
    , Archbishop of Trier, related by blood and united by friendship with most of the saints of the Merovingian period (640)
  • Saint Rictrudis
    Rictrude
    Rictrude was abbess of Marchiennes Abbey, in Flanders. The main early source for her life is the Vita Rictrudis of Hucbald, commissioned by the abbey, and written in 907 by Hucbald.....
    
    , Abbess of Marchiennes Abbey
    Marchiennes Abbey
    Marchiennes Abbey was a French monastery located on the Scarpe in Marchiennes.It was founded around 630 by Adalbaud, duc de Douai, and Irish monks, disciples of saint Columbanus, on the advice of Saint Amand. One of its founders was Rictrude, who made it double monastery in 643. In around 1024 it...
    
     in Flanders (688)
  • Saint Theophanes, Archbishop of Cyprus (7th c.)
  • Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (740)
  • Saint Æthelhard
    Æthelhard
    Æthelhard was a Bishop of Winchester then an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Appointed by King Offa of Mercia, Æthelhard had difficulties with both the Kentish monarchs and with a rival archiepiscopate in southern England, and was deposed around 796 by King Eadberht III Præn of Kent...
    
    , Archbishop of Canterbury
    Archbishop of Canterbury
    The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
    
     (805)
  • Venerable Theodore of Kythera, ascetic (922)
  • Saint Euthemius (Euthymius), Patriarch of Jerusalem (ca.1084)
  • Saint Nikitas the Sinaite
  • New Martyr John of Serres
    Serres
    Serres is a city in Greece, seat of the Serres prefecture.Serres may also refer to:Places:* Serres, Germany, a part of Wiernsheim in Baden-WürttembergIn France:* Serres, Aude in the Aude département...
    
     (15th c.)
  • Saint Theophanes, Bishop of Solea (Solia), Cyprus, later a hermit in the Troodos Mountains
    Troodos Mountains
    Troodos is the biggest mountain range of Cyprus, located in the center of the island. Troodos' highest peak is Mount Olympus at 1,952 metres.The Troodos mountain range stretches across most of the western side of Cyprus...
    
    ; the Outpourer of Myrrh (1550)
  • Monk Dorotheus, (disciple of St. Dionysius of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra) (1622)
  • Venerable Dionysius of Radonezh, Archimandrite of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
    Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
    The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to...
    
    (1633)
  • New Martyr John of Wallachia, at Constantinople (1662)
  • Saint Anthony (Medvedev) of Radonezh, Archimandrite of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
    Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
    The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to...
    
     (1877)
  • Repose of Saint Nectarius (Tikhonov) of Optina (1928)
  • New Martyr Abbess Athanasia (Lepeshkin), of the Smolensk Hodigitria Convent
    Novodevichy Convent
    Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Its name, sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, was devised to differ from an ancient maidens' convent within the Moscow Kremlin. Unlike other Moscow cloisters, it has...
    
     near Moscow (1931)
  • New Hieromartyr Peter, priest (1937)
  
  

  Other commemorations

  • Glorification (1913) of Hieromartyr Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow
    Patriarch Hermogenes
    Hermogenes, or Germogen , was the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia from 1606. It was he who inspired the popular uprising that put an end to the Time of Troubles. Hermogenes was glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1913...
    
     (1612)
  • Discovery of the holy relics (1961) of Saint Irene of Lesvos
    Irene of Lesvos
    St. Irene the Newly-Appeared Martyr of Lesvos is an Eastern Orthodox saint martyred by Turkish soldiers with her companions Sts...
    
    the Virgin-martyr (1463)
  • Second Uncovering of the relics (1992) of Righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye (1642)
  
  

  Sources

  • May 12/25. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • May 25 / May 12. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
  • May 12. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
  • May. Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
  • May 12. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • May 12. The Roman Martyrology.
  
  Greek Sources
  • 12 ΜΑΪΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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