Month May 2021

Jonah of Odessa the Confessor – May 17

Jonah (Atamansky) confessor Of Odessa Fr. Jonah Moiseyevich Atamansky was born in Odessa on September 14, 1852 (according to another source, 1855) into the family of Deacon Moses Florovich Atamansky, who served in the church of the Nativity of the…

Today- Fifth Sunday of Pascha: The Samaritan Woman. Tone four

Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and his fellow laborer Junia (1st c.). Venerable Euphrosyne (Princess Eudocia) of Moscow (1407). Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon at Chalcedon (298). St. Stephen, archbishop of Constantinople (893).Uncovering of the relics (1551) of Venerable Adrian,…

St. Pachomius the Great – May 15

St. Pachomius was born to pagan parents in Thebaid (Upper Egypt). There he received an excellent secular education. From his youth, he had a good character, and he was prudent and sensible. At the age of either 20 or 21,…

The Feast of Mid-Pentecost

On Wednesday of the fourth week we celebrate the Mid-Feast of Pentecost, i.e. half of the period from Pascha to Pentecost. This day we commemorate that event from the life of the Savior, when He on the Mid-feast of the…

The Hieromartyr Joseph, First Metropolitan of Astrakhan

Commemorated on May 11    Hieromartyr Joseph, First Metropolitan of Astrakhan, was born at Astrakhan in 1579. Having taken monastic vows, Saint Joseph at 52 years of age was raised to the dignity of archimandrite of the Astrakhan Trinity monastery. In…