Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

May 09

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

  1. Translation of the Relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from Myra to Bari.
  2. Prophet Isaiah.
  3. Martyr Christopher of Lycia, and with him Martyrs Callinica and Aquilina.
  4. Martyr Epimachus the New of Alexandria.
  5. Martyr Gordion at Rome.
  6. Translation of the Relics of Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk.
  7. Monk-martyr Nicholas who lived in Vuneni, of Larissa in Thessaly.
  8. St. Shio, monk, of Georgia.
  9. Repose of Schemahieromonk Joseph of Optina (1911).



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