May 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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For May 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 29.
Saints
- Saint Domitilla the martyr (c. 81-96)
- Saints Nereus and Achilleus the martyrs (100)
- Saint Dracontius, Bishop of Nicaea (c. 1st to 3rd centuries)
- Saint Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis and Metropolitan of Cyprus (403)
- Saint Calliope (Callitropos), nun, sister of St. Epiphanius of Cyprus.
- Saint Sabinus, Archbishop of Cyprus (successor of St. Epiphanius to the Cypriot cathedra) (5th century)
- Saint Polybius, Bishop of Cyprus, Wonderworker (5th century)
- Saint Theophanes, Archbishop of Cyprus (7th century)
- Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (740)
- Venerable Theodore of Kythera, ascetic (922)
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Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Philip of Agira the Hieromartyr (103)
- Martyr Pancratius of Rome (304)
- Martyr Dionysius (Denis), uncle of St. Pancratius (304)
- Saint Díoma, teacher of St Declan of Ardmore, patron-saint of Kildimo in Co. Limerick in Ireland (5th century)
- Saint Modoald, Archbishop of Trier, related by blood and united by friendship with most of the saints of the Merovingian period (640)
- Saint Rictrudis, Abbess of Marchiennes Abbey in Flanders (688)
- Saint Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury (805)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Euthemius (Euthymius), Patriarch of Jerusalem (c. 1084? c. 1224?))
- Saint Nikitas the Sinaite
- New Martyr John of Serres (15th century)
- Saint Theophanes, Bishop of Solea (Solia), Cyprus, later a hermit in the Troodos Mountains; the Outpourer of Myrrh (1550)
- Monk Dorotheus, (disciple of St. Dionysius of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra) (1622)
- Venerable Dionysius of Radonezh, Archimandrite of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra(1633)
- New Martyr John of Wallachia, at Constantinople (1662)
- Saint Anthony (Medvedev) of Radonezh, Archimandrite of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1877)
- Repose of Saint Nectarius (Tikhonov) of Optina (1928)
- Holy Elders of the Sofronievo-Molchensk (Molchansk) Hermitage (glorification in 2009):
- Archimandrite Theodosy (Maslov);
- Hieromonk Serapion;
- Monk Sophronius (Batovrin);
- Novice Sergius (Tikhonov), fool-for-Christ.
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr Abbess Athanasia (Lepeshkina), of the Smolensk Hodigitria Convent near Moscow (1931)
- New Hieromartyr Peter Popov, priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
- Martyr Evdokia Martishkina (1938)
Other commemorations
- Consecration of the Cathedral of the Theotokos at Kiev (in 996)
- Glorification (1913) of Hieromartyr Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1612)
- Discovery of the holy relics (1961) of Saint Irene of Lesvos the Virgin-martyr (1463)
- Second Uncovering of the relics (1992) of Righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye (1642)
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