Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

May 23

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

  1. St. Michael the Confessor, Bishop of Synnada.
  2. Opening of the Relics of St. Leontius, Bishop and wonderworker of Rostov.
  3. Martyr Michael "the black-robed" of St. Sabbas' Monastery.
  4. Virgin Euphrosyne, princess of Polotsk.
  5. St. Paisius, abbot of Galich.
  6. Holy Myrrh-bearer, wife of Cleopas.
  7. Greek Calendar
    • Martyr Salonas the Roman.
    • Martyr Seleucus.
  8. Hieromonk Damascene of Valaam (1825).



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