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May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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May 7 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective May 7 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Martyrs Quadratus (Codratos) of Nicomedia and his companions (251–259) (see also March 7)

Martyrs Rufinus and Saturninus.

Hieromartyr Flavius, and Martyrs Augustus and Augustinus, from Asia Minor (c. 284-305)

Martyr Acacius the centurion at Byzantium (303)

The Venerable Fathers of Georgia: Saint John of Zedazeni in Georgia, and his 12 disciples (6th century):

Shio of Mgvime; David of Gareji; Anthony of Martqopi; Thaddeus of Urbnisi (or Stepantsminda); Stephen of Khirsa; Isidore of Samtavisi; Michael of Ulumbo; Pyrrhus of Breta; Zeno of Iqalto; Jesse (Ise) of Tsilkani; Joseph of Alaverdi; Abibus of Nekressi.

Righteous Tarasius the Hermit and Wonderworker of Lycaonia. (see also March 8 and March 9)

Saint John the Confessor, of Psychaita, on the Bosphorus (c. 825) (see also May 26)

King Bagrat III of Georgia (1014)

Martyr Juvenal of Benevento (132 AD)

Saint Domitianus of Maastricht, Bishop of Maastricht (560)

Saints Serenicus and Serenus, two brothers who became monks and later settled as hermits near the River Sarthe in France (c. 669)

Saint Placid (Placidus, Plait), Benedictine Abbot of the Basilica Monastery of St Symphorian in Autun, France (675)

Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721) (see also: March 7)

Venerable Nilus of Sora, Abbot and Wonderworker (1508)

New Monk-martyr Pachomius the Russian of Mount Athos, of Usaki near Philadelphia (1730) (see also: May 21)

Saint Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America (1909)

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