Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
May 07
Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,
Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics
- Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.
LITURGY: I Cor 1:18-24; Jn 19:6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35.
- Martyr Acacius the centurion at Byzantium.
- Repose of of St. Nilus, abbot of Sora.
- St. John of Zaden in Georgia, and 12 disciples: Saints Shio, David, Anthony, Thaddeus, Stephen, Isidore, Michael, Pyrrhus, Zeno, Jesse, Joseph, and Abibus.
- New-Martyr Pachomius of Patmos.
- Opening of the Relics of St. Nilus the Myrrh-gusher of Mt. Athos.
- "Zhirovits" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
- Repose of Hieromonk Eulogius of Valaam (1969).
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