Saints

• Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
  John the Apostle
  John the Apostle, John the Apostle, John the Apostle, (Aramaic Yoħanna, (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles...
  
  , the "beloved disciple" of the Lord (ca. 101)
• Hieromartyr Dionysius of Vienne
  Dionysius of Vienne
  Dionysius was Bishop of Vienne. He was among the ten missionaries sent by Pope St. Sixtus I with St. Peregrinus to Gaul. Dionysius later succeeded St. Justus as Bishop of Vienne, in Dauphiné, France.-References:...
  
   (193)
• The holy group of Soldier Martyrs
• Saint Augustina the Martyr, in Byzantium
• Martyr Victor of Milan
  Victor Maurus
  Victor the Moor was a Christian martyr and is venerated as a saint. Victor, born into a Christian family, was a soldier in the Roman Praetorian Guard...
  
   (Victor the Moor, Victor Maurus) (ca. 303)
• Saint Agathius
  Agathius
  Saint Agathius , also known as Achatius or Agathonas or Acacius of Byzantium, was a Cappadocian Greek centurion of the imperial army...
  
   (Acacius of Byzantium) (303)
• Saint Emilia, mother of saints Macrina
  Saint Macrina the Younger
  Saint Macrina the Younger was born at Caesarea, Cappadocia. Her parents were Basil the Elder and Emmelia, and her grandmother was Saint Macrina the Elder. Among her nine siblings were two of the three Cappadocian Fathers, her younger brothers Basil the Great and Saint Gregory of Nyssa, as well as...
  
  , Basil the Great, Naucratius
  Naucratius
  Saint Naucratius was the son of Basil the Elder and Emmelia of Caesarea. He had distinguished himself both in scholarship and Christian devotion, as an active hermit, a living example for his famous brothers, Basil and Gregory of Nyssa.-Life:...
  
  , Peter of Sebaste
  Peter of Sebaste
  Peter of Sebaste was a bishop, taking his usual name from the city of his bishopry, Sebaste in Armenia.Also known as Peter of Sebasteia....
  
  , and Gregory of Nyssa
  Gregory of Nyssa
  St. Gregory of Nyssa was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory of Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic branches of Christianity...
  
   (375)
• Saint Helladius of Auxerre
  Helladius of Auxerre
  Helladius of Auxerre was a Christian bishop of Auxerre. St. Amator was ordained deacon and tonsured by Helladius, which provides the earliest example of ecclesiastical tonsure mentioned in the religious history of France. He is commemorated on May 8.-Sources:*...
  
   (387)
• Saint Arsenius the Great, of Scetis (448)
• Saint Hierax
  Hierax
  Hierax can refer to a number of people:*Hierax , Spartan Commander in the Corinthian War*Hierax , Learned Egyptian Ascetic living during the 3rd Century...
  
   (Ierakos) of Egypt
  Egypt
  Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
  
   (5th c.)
• Saint Gybrian
  Gibrian
  Saint Gibrian was an Irish saint associated with Reims and the Marne region.His story appears in the fourth book of the Historia Remensis ecclesiae , which was written by Flodoard in the tenth century...
  
   (Gobrian) of Ireland, Priest (509)
• Saint Desideratus
  Desideratus
  Desideratus was a French saint in the Christian church from Soissons. Unusually, he came from a family of saints, as his father, Auginus, mother, Agia, and brother, Deodatus, were all canonized...
  
  , successor of St Arcadius
  Arcadius of Bourges
  Saint Arcadius was a bishop of Bourges. He took part in the Council of Orléans . He was bishop for about 15 years. His episcopate is sometimes said to have lasted from 531 to 541.-External links:*...
  
   as Bishop of Bourges, in France (550)
• Saint Iduberga, foundress of Nivelles
  Nivelles
  Nivelles is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the old communes of Baulers, Bornival, Thines, and Monstreux....
  
   (Nijvel), (Neth.) (652)
• Saint Benedict II
  Pope Benedict II
  Pope Saint Benedict II was Pope from 684 to 685.Pope Benedict II died on May 8, 685. He succeeded Leo II. Although chosen in 683, he was not ordained until 684 because the leave of Emperor Constantine IV was not obtained until some months after the election...
  
  , Pope of Rome (685)
• Hieromartyr Indract of Glastonbury
  Indract of Glastonbury
  Indract or Indracht was a saint who, along with his companions, was venerated at Glastonbury Abbey, a monastery in the county of Somerset in south-western England...
  
  , and his companions at Shapwick
  Shapwick, Somerset
  Shapwick is a village on the Somerset Levels, in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. It is situated to the west of Glastonbury.-History:Shapwick is the site of one end of the Sweet Track, an ancient causeway dating from the 39th century BC....
  
   (ca.7th-8th c.)
• Saints Wiro (Bishop of Utrecht) (710), Plechelm
  Plechelm
  Plechelm is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and a patron saint of the Netherlands. Plechelm, also Pleghelm or Plechelmus was a Benedictine monk who traveled to Rome with St. Wiro and St. Otger. He became a missionary in Northumbria and The Netherlands and died in St. Odiliënberg...
  
   (730), and Hierodeacon Otger (Odger) (8th c.), Missionary bishops in the Maas Valley at Limburg
• Saint Milles the Melode (hymnographer), monk
• Saint Macarius of Ghent, archbishop (1012)
• Saint Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra or Kyiv Pechersk Lavra , also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine....
  
   (ca. 1141)
• Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra or Kyiv Pechersk Lavra , also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine....
  
   (13-14th c.)
• Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra or Kyiv Pechersk Lavra , also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine....
  
   (14th c.)
• The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk
  Volokolamsk
  Volokolamsk is a town and the administrative center of Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Gorodenka River, not far from its confluence with the Lama River, northwest of Moscow. Population: -History:...
  
  , founders of the Sestrinsk monastery on the banks of the River Sestra (15-16th c.)
• Blessed Basiliscus of Uglich
  Uglich
  Uglich is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, which stands on the Volga River. Population: A local tradition dates the town's origins to 937. It was first documented in 1148 as Ugliche Pole...
  
   (1863)
• Schemahieromonk Michael of Valaam, confessor for the Orthodox Calendar (1934) (Elder Michael I The Confessor, 1871-1934)

Other commemorations

• Apparition of the Archangel Michael on Mount Gargano
  Gargano
  Gargano is a historical and geographical Italian sub-region situated in Apulia, consisting of a wide isolated mountain massif made of highland and several peaks and forming the backbone of the Gargano Promontory projecting into the Adriatic Sea. The high point is Monte Calvo at . Most of the upland...
  
   near Manfredonia
  Manfredonia
  Manfredonia is a town and comune of Puglia, Italy, in the province of Foggia, from which it is 35 kilometres northeast by rail. Manfredonia is situated on the coast, facing east, to the south of Monte Gargano, and giving its name to the gulf to the east of it...
  
   in southern Italy, to Bishop Laurence of Siponto (commemorated February 7
  February 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  Feb. 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 8-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 20 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Parthenius of Lampsacus, bishop *Venerable Luke of Hellas...
  
  ), in memory of which the famous Monastery of the Archangel
  Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo
  The Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano, sometimes called simply Monte Gargano, is a Catholic sanctuary on Mount Gargano, Italy, part of the commune of Monte Sant'Angelo, in the province of Foggia, northern Apulia....
  
   was founded (ca.490)
• Commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Most Holy Theotokos
  Theotokos
  Theotokos is the Greek title of Mary, the mother of Jesus used especially in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches. Its literal English translations include God-bearer and the one who gives birth to God. Less literal translations include Mother of God...
  
   of Cassiopia
  Cassiopia
  Cassiopia or Cassopia or Cassopa or Kassopa , was an ancient Greek city in Thesprotia, Epirus and also a region of the same name . It was also the name of a pre Hellenistic settlement....
  
   (1530)
• Translation of the relics (1785) of St. Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)

Sources

• Complete List of Saints, Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG)
• May 8, OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May 8/21, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU)
• May 21 / May 8, HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow)
• VALAAM PATERICON.
• May 8. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 8, The Roman Martyrology.

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