16 Мая 1821 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, May 16, 1821 (May 4, 1821 by the Julian calendar)
Mid-Pentecost or Prepolovenie, Tone three

"Mozdok: and "Dubensk-Krasnogorodsk" (17th c.) Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Prepolovenie – Mid-Pentecost). Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Tarsus in Asia Minor (287). The Alfanov brothers: Sts. Nicetas, Cyril, Nicephorus, Clement, and Isaac of Novgorod, founders of the Sokolnitzki Monastery (1389). Hieromartyr Erasmus, bishop of Formia in Campania (303). Hieromartyr Albian (Olbian), bishop of Anaea in Asia Minor (304). Hieromartyr Silvanus of Gaza (311). Martyrs Aphrodisius, Leontius, Anthony, Valerian, Macrobius, and others, monks of Palestine. Translation of the relics of the Righteous Lazarus and Mary Magdalene, Equal-to-the-Apostles. St. Nicephorus, abbot of Medikion. Icon of the Mother of God "Staro Rus" Old Russian (1570). St. Ethelred, king of Mercia and monk in England (716) (Celtic & British). St. Nicephorus the Solitary of Mt. Athos, the spiritual father of St. Gregory Palamas (1340) (Greek). St. Athanasius, bishop of Corinth (10th - 11th c.) (Greek). Hilary the Wonderworker of the desert (Greek). St. Monica of Tagaste (mother of Blessed Augustine) (387).