Saints

• Martyrs Hesperos (Exuperius) and Zoe
  Exuperius and Zoe
  Saints Exuperius and Zoe are 2nd century Christian martyrs. They were a married couple who were slaves of a pagan in Pamphylia. They were killed along with their sons, Cyriacus and Theodolus, for refusing to participate in pagan rites when their son was born.-Notes:...
  
  , and their sons Cyriacos and Theodoulos, at Attalia (ca. 124)
• Saint Valentine, Bishop of Genoa in Italy ca.295-307, (ca.307)
• Saint Germanus of Normandy, converted by St Germanus of Auxerre
  Germanus of Auxerre
  Germanus of Auxerre was a bishop of Auxerre in Gaul. He is a saint in both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, commemorated on July 31. He visited Britain in around 429 and the records of this visit provide valuable information on the state of post-Roman British society...
  
  , martyred in France (ca.460)
• Hieromartyrs Vindemialis, Eugene and Longinus, Bishops in North Africa martyred by the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (ca.485)
• Saint Neachtain, a relative of St Patrick of Ireland
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
   at whose repose he was present (5th c.)
• Saint Ultan
  Ultan
  Ultan was an Irish monk who later became an abbot. He was the brother of Saint Fursey and Foillan. He was a member of Fursey's mission from Ireland to East Anglia in c. 633, and lived there both as a monastic probationary and later alone as an anchorite. In c...
  
  , Irish monk, brother of Saints Fursey
  Saint Fursey
  Saint Fursey was an Irish monk who did much to establish Christianity throughout the British Isles and particularly in East Anglia...
  
   and Foillan
  Foillan
  Saint Foillan is an Irish saint of the seventh century.- Family :Foillan was the brother of Saints Ultan and Fursey. He is described as the 'uterine brother' of Fursey, meaning that they had the same mother but not the same father...
  
   (657)
• Saint Waldebert
  Saint Waldebert
  Waldebert , , was a Frankish count of Guines, Ponthieu and Saint-Pol who became abbot of Luxeuil in the Benedictine Order, and eventually a canonized saint in the Roman Catholic Church, like several among his kinsmen who protected the Church, enriched it with lands and founded monasteries.Like his...
  
   (Walbert, Gaubert), abbot of Luxeuil
  Luxeuil Abbey
  Luxeuil Abbey was one of the oldest and best-known monasteries in Burgundy, located in the "département" of Haute-Saône in Franche-Comté, France.-Columbanus:...
  
   in France (ca.668)
• Saint Bertinus the Younger, Benedictine monk at Sithin, in France (699)
• Saint Felix of Seville, deacon and martyr in Seville, Spain, under the Muslims
• Saint Jordan the Wonderworker
• Saint Sabbas, Bishop of Dafnousia
  Dafnousia
  Dafnousia is a former municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lokroi, of which it is a municipal unit. Its 2001 population was 4,326...
  
  
• Saint Boris-Michael, Prince and baptizer of Bulgaria
  Bulgaria
  Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
  
  , Equal-to-the-Apostles (907)
• Martyr Wiborada
  Wiborada
  Saint Wiborada of St. Gall was a member of the Swabian nobility in what is present-day Switzerland. She was an anchoress, Benedictine nun, and martyr, as well as the first woman formally canonized by the Vatican. Her vita was written ca...
  
  , anchoress of St. Gallen Abbey in Germany (926)
• St. Athanasius of Syandem and Valaam (ca. 1550)
• Patriarch Athanasius III Patelaros, of Constantinople, from Lubensk (Lubny
  Lubny
  Lubny is a city in the Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Lubensky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast...
  
  ) (1654)
• Blessed Basil of Kadom, fool-for-Christ (1848)
• Saint Matrona
  Matryona Nikonova
  Matrona Dmitrievna Nikonova, the Blessed Elder of Moscow, , known as Matrona of Moscow, is a renowned saint of the Russian Orthodox Church who had the gift of spiritual vision and the gift of healing from early childhood....
  
   the Blind, the Righteous Wonderworker of Moscow (1952)

Other Commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria
  Athanasius of Alexandria
  Athanasius of Alexandria [b. ca. – d. 2 May 373] is also given the titles St. Athanasius the Great, St. Athanasius I of Alexandria, St Athanasius the Confessor and St Athanasius the Apostolic. He was the 20th bishop of Alexandria. His long episcopate lasted 45 years Athanasius of Alexandria [b....
  
   (373)
• Translation of the relic
  Relic
  In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...
  
  s (1072 and 1115) of the holy passion-bearers Boris and Gleb (in holy baptism Romanus and David) (1015)
• Icon of the Theotokos of Putivilsk (1238, 1635)

Oriental Orthodox

• Saint Marutha of Takrit (Morooso), Maphrian
  Maphrian
  The Maphrian was historically the prelate in the Syriac Orthodox Church who ranked second in the hierarchy after the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. The Maphrian, whose title literally means "one who bears fruit", i.e. "consecrator", was originally the head of the church in Persia and the...
  
  of the East (Catholicos) (649)

Sources

• May 2/15, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
• May 15, 2011 / May 2, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• May 2. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 2. The Roman Martyrology.

• 2 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.