Saints

• Righteous Melchizedek
  Melchizedek
  Melchizedek or Malki Tzedek translated as "my king righteous") is a king and priest mentioned during the Abram narrative in the 14th chapter of the Book of Genesis....
  
  , King of Salem (believed to be ancient Jerusalem) (ca. 2000 B.C.)
• Saint Ausonius, first Bishop of Angoulême (1st c. or 3rd c.)
• Saint Marcian of Ravenna, Bishop and Confessor (ca.127)
• Martyrs Castus and Emilius
  Castus and Emilius
  Saints Castus and Emilius are venerated as saints and martyrs by the Catholic Church. They are praised by Saint Cyprian and Augustine of Hippo. When they were imprisoned, Castus and Emilius denied that they were Christians under torture and were released. When they were arrested a second time,...
  
  , by fire, in Carthage (250)
• Martyr Sophia the Healer.
• Martyr Marcellus, by being placed in molten lead.
• Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), by being dragged by horses.
• Martyr Basiliscus of Comana
  Comana
  Comana is the name of several places:* three ancient episcopal cities in Asia Minor :** Comana, Cappadocia, still a Roman Catholic titular see and Orthodox titular see...
  
   (ca.285-305)
• Saint Donatus of Thmuis
  Thmuis
  Thmuis is a city of Lower Egypt, on the canal east of the Nile, between its Tanitic and Mendesian branches. In Greco-Roman Egypt, Thmuis replaced Djedet as the capital of Lower Egypt's 16th nome of Kha [ Herodotus ]. The two cities are only several hundred meters apart...
  
  , Bishop and Martyr (316)
• Martyrs Timothy, Faustinus and Venustus, in Rome, under Julian the Apostate
  Julian the Apostate
  Julian "the Apostate" , commonly known as Julian, or also Julian the Philosopher, was Roman Emperor from 361 to 363 and a noted philosopher and Greek writer....
  
   (362)
• Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (381)
• Saint Helen of Carnarvon (Elen Luyddog, Helen of Caernarfon), Princess, a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales, and wife of Emperor Magnus Clemens Maximus
  Magnus Maximus
  Magnus Maximus , also known as Maximianus and Macsen Wledig in Welsh, was Western Roman Emperor from 383 to 388. As commander of Britain, he usurped the throne against Emperor Gratian in 383...
  
   (383-388) (4th c.)
• Saint Helen of Auxerre (ca.418)
• Saint Julia of Corsica
  Julia of Corsica
  Saint Julia of Corsica , also known as Saint Julia of Carthage, and more rarely Saint Julia of Nonza, was a virgin martyr who is venerated as a Christian saint. The date of her death is most probably on or after AD 439. She, along with Saint Devota, are the patron saints of Corsica in the Roman...
  
   the martyr, who was crucified
  Crucifixion
  Crucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead...
  
   (5th c.)
• Saint Quiteria
  Quiteria
  Saint Quiteria was a 5th century virgin martyr and saint. Nothing is certain about Quiteria except her name and her cult. Her name appears in the Roman Martyrology, but not in any other ancient calendars...
  
   the virgin-martyr, in Spain (5th c.)
• Saint Romanus of Subiaco
  Romanus of Subiaco
  Saint Romanus of Subiaco was a hermit in the area around Subiaco, Italy.He is remembered as having assisted and influenced Saint Benedict of Nursia, when the latter had just begun his life as a hermit. Romanus provided Benedict with clothing , food, and housing Saint Romanus of Subiaco (died ca....
  
   (Romanus of Auxerre), ascetic who ministered to Saint Benedict of Nursia
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
   (560)
• Saint Fulk
  Saint Fulk
  The first Saint Fulk was a pilgrim who was beatified for his selfless assistance of plague victims even when this was a risk to himself. He was travelling to Rome when he stopped at Santopadre, or Castrofuli, in southern Italy, to help plague victims. He died of the plague, and was beatified and...
  
   (ca.600)
• Saint Boethian of Pierrepont
  Pierrepont, Aisne
  Pierrepont is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France....
  
   (near Laon
  Laon
  Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-History:The hilly district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance...
  
  ), Irish, Benedictine monk, martyred in France (7th c.)
• Saint Conall (Conald, Coel), of Inniskeel (Inniscoel, Innis-coel), County Donegal , Abbot of the island monastery of Inniskeel, where there is a holy well
  Holy well
  A holy well, or sacred spring, is a small body of water emerging from underground and revered either in a Pagan or Christian context, often both. Holy wells were frequently pagan sacred sites that later became Christianized. The term 'holy well' is commonly employed to refer to any water source of...
  
   dedicated to him (7th c.)
• Saint John of Parma, abbot of Saint John's at Parma from 973 to c.982, then under Cluniac observance (ca.982)
• Saint Bobo
  St. Bobo
  St. Bobo was a knight for Provence, France; he fought against the invading Saracens. In France he was known as Beuvon and eventually became a hermit. St...
  
   (Beuvon), hermit (ca.985)
• Saint John Vladimir
  Jovan Vladimir
  Jovan Vladimir or John Vladimir was ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from around 1000 to 1016. He ruled during the protracted war between the Byzantine Empire and the First Bulgarian Empire...
  
  , King of Serbia, Martyr, Wonderworker (1015)
• Saint Kali of Asia Minor (ca.14th c.)
• New Hieromartyr Zachariah of Prussa (1802)
• Blessed James, youth, of Borovichi
  Borovichi
  Borovichi is the second largest town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Population: -Geography:The town is located in the northern spurs of the Valdai Hills, east of Veliky Novgorod. It stands upon the Msta River. Just upstream Borovichi there are the famous rapids of Msta popular among...
  
   (Novgorod) (1540)
• Martyrs Marcellus, Codratus, Paul, Demetrius, and Sophia
• New Monk-martyr Paul of Mt. Athos, at Tripolis, Peloponnesus (1818)
• New Hieromartyr Michael, priest (1942)

Other commemorations

• Synaxis of the Cyprus Icon ("Sophianois" Icon) of the Most Holy Mother of God.
• New Martyr Demetrios of Peloponnesos
  Peloponnese
  The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus , is a large peninsula , located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth...
  
   (1803)
• Repose of Cleopas of Valaam, disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky
  Paisius Velichkovsky
  Saint Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski is the person who transmitted Eastern Orthodox staretsdom or the concept of spiritual guidance to the Slavic world.A Ukrainian by birth, Pyotr Velichkovsky was born in Poltava, where his father, Ivan, was a priest...
  
  (1816)
• Repose of Eldress Macrina of Volos (1995)

Sources

• May 22/June 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• June 4 / May 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH(A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar - May. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney (Dallas area) Texas.
• May 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 22. The Roman Martyrology.

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