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Orthodox Calendar Castlebar for May 2011
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Holy Orthodox Liturgy Sunday 1st May 3-30pm Church of Holy Rosary Castlebar all are most welcome

2nd Sunday Of Pascha. St Thomas Sunday

Commemorations of Day.St Tamas (Tamara) Queen of Georgia (1213) St Paphnutius, Abbot of Borovsk (1478) Heiromarty Macarius, Metroploitian of Kiev (1497) New Martyrs Euthymius (1814) Ignatius (1814)
and Acacius (1816) of Mt Athos. St Nicephorus of Chios (1821) Icon of The Most Holy Theotokos, (Unexpected Joy)

Monday 2nd May St Athanasius The Great, Archbishop of Alexandria (373)
St Boris (In Baptism Michael) Prince of Bulgaria (906-7) Translation of Relics of Passionbearers Boris and Gleb(In Baptism Roman and David, 1072 and (1115) St Athanasius of Lubensk, Patriarch of Constantinople (1656)

Tuesday 3rd May Joyful Commemoration of The Dead.
Martyrs Maura of Antinoe In Egypt (C286) St Peter The Wonderworker, Bishop of Atgos (10th)
St Theodosius, Abbott of Kiev Caves Monastery (1074) New Martyr Ahmet The Calligrapher (1682)

Wednesday 4th May Virgin-Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus In Asia Minor (290) St Monica, Mother of St
Augustine of Hippo (387) ( Nicephorus of Medikion ( Bithynia 813) St Nicephorus The Hesychast (Mt Athos 13th)

Thursday 5th May.Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica (1st-2nd) St Hilary, Bishop of Arles (449) New Martyr Ephraim The Newly Revealed (1426)

Friday 6th May. Fast Day (Wine, Oil) Righteous Job The Long -Suffering. St Job, Wonderworker of Pochaev

Saturday 7th May. Commemoration of The Apparition of The Sign of The Precious Cross Over Jerusalem In 351. Martyr Acacius The Centurion At Byzantium (303) St John Zedazneni and The Twelve Syrian Fathers Founders of Monasticism In Georgia (6th) St Nilus, Abbott of Sora (1508)
St Nilus The Myrr Flowing of Lavra (Mt Athos 1651) Monk-Martyr Pachomius (Mt Athos 1730)
St Alexis (Toth) of Wilkes-Barre (U.S.A 1909)

Sunday 8th May 3rd Sunday of Pascha. Holy Myrr-Bearing Women: Mary Magdalen, Mary The Wife of Cleopas, Joanna, Salome The Mother of The Sons of Zebedee, Susanna, and Mary and Martha The Sisters of Lazarus. Righteous Joseph of Armaathaea and Nicodemus.
Holy Apostle and Evangelist John The Theologian (1st-2nd)

Monday 9th May. Translation of Relics of St Nicolas The Wonderworker From Myra To Bari (1087)
Prophet Isaiah (8thbc) Martyr Christopher of Lycia, and With Him Martyrs Callinica and Aquilla ( C250) St Shio of Georgia (6th)

Tuesday 10th May Apostle Simon Zeolotes (1st) St Isodora The Fool, of Tabennesi In Egypt (4th)
St Thais of Egypt (5th)

Wednesday 11th May. Holy Equal-To-The-Apostles- Cyril(869) and Methodius (885)
First Teachers of The Slavs. Commemoration of The Founding of Constantinople.
Heiromaryr Mocius (303) Holy Equal-To-The-Apostles Ro Tislav, Prince of Great Moravia (870) St Nicodemus, Archbishop of Serbia ( 1325)

Thursday 12th May St Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia In Cyprus (403)
St Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople (740) St Dionysius, Archimandrite of St Sergius Monastery (1633) Glorification of Heiromartyr Hermogen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1633)

Friday 13th May. Fast Day ( Wine, Oil) Virgin-Martyr Glyceria At Heraclea, and With Her, Martyr Laodicius, Keeper of The Prison (C177) Sts John, Euthymius and George, Founders Ofv Iveron Monastery (Mt Athos 10th)

Saturday 14th May Martyr Isidore of Chios (251) St Leontius, Patriarch of Jerusalem ( 1184)
St Isidore, Fool-For-Christ, Wonderworker of Rostov (1474)

Sunday 15th May 4th Sunday of Pascha. The Paralysed Man. St Pachomius The Great (346)
St Isaiah, Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov (1090)
St Dimitry, Crown Prince of Uglich and Oscow (1591)

Monday 16th May St Theodore The Santified, Disciple of St Pachomius The Great (368)
St Musa The Child (Rome 5th) St George, Bishop of Mitylene (9th)

Tuesday 16th May. Apostle Andronicus, of The Seventy, and His Fellow Labourer Junia (1st)
St Euphrosyne(Princess Eudoxia) of Moscow (1404)

Wednesday 18th May. Fast Day (Fish, Wine Oil) Mid-Feast of Pentecost.
Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra (303) St Macarius ( Glukharev), Missionary (Russia 1847)

Thursday 19th May. Hieromaryr Patrick, Bishop of Prussa (2nd-3rd) St Dimitry Donskoy, Prince of Moscow (1389)

Friday 20th May Fast Day (Wine Il) St Cornelius of Komel ( 1537)

Saturday 21st May. Holy Equal-To -Apostles-Emperor Constantinople (337) and His Mother Helena (C330)

Sunday 22nd May. 5th Sunday of Pascha. The Samaritan Woman (Mary Photini)
The Holy Patriarchs of Constantinople.
St John-Vladimir, Ruler of Serbia (1015) New Martyr Paul of The Peloponnese (1818)

Monday 23rd May. St Michael The Confessor, Bishop of Synada (826)
Mary The Wife of Cleopas, Myrrh-Bearer (1st) Synaxis of The Saints of Rostov-Yaroslav.
St Euphrosyne, Abbess of Polotsk. (1173)

Tuesday 24th May. St Symeon Stylites (The Younger) of The Wonderful Mountain (592)
St Vincent of Lerins (C450) St Nikita Stylites, Wonderworker of Pereyaslav-Zalesski (1186)

Wednesday 25th May.Fast Day (Wine Oil) Leavetaking of Mid-Feast-of Pentecost.
Third Finding of The Honourable Head of The Holy, Glorious Propher, Forerunner and Baptist John. (850) Hieromartyr Urban, Pope of Rome (230) Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of of Cyprus (4th)

Thursday 26th May. Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus, of The Seventy (1st)
Martyrs Abercius and Helen, Children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st)
Great Martyr George The New of Sofia ( Bulgaria 1515)

Friday 27th May. Fast Day ( Wine Oil) St John The Russian ( Confessor), Whose Relics Are On Island of Euboea (1730) Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Sardis (3rd) St Melangell ( Monacella) Hermit
At Pennant Melangell (C590)

Saturday 28th May. St Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene (1st)
St Germanus (Germain) , Bishop of Paris (576)
St Ignatius, Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov (1288)
St Helena (Manturova) Nun of Diveyevo (1832)

Sunday 29th May. 6th Sunday of Pascha The Blind Man
Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre (307-308) St Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria ( 328)
St John Ustiug, Fool-For-Christ (1494) St Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol (1961)

Monday 30th May. St Isaacius, Founder of The Dalmatian Monastery At Constantinople (383)

Tuesday 31st May. Apostle Hermas, of The Seventy (1st) Martyr Hermeius At Comana (2nd)