16 Мая 1979 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, May 16, 1979 (May 3, 1979 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). Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286). + St. Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074). St. Peter the Wonderworker, bishop of Argos (10th c.). New Hieromartyr Nicolos priest (1941). Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073). "Pechersk" (with Sts. Antony and Theodosius) (1085), "Sven-Caves" (1288), "Yaskinsky" and Vlakhernsky" Icons of the Mother of God St. Ansfried, bishop of Utrecht (1010). St. Ecumenius the Wonderworker, bishop of Tricca (Greek). Translation of the relics of St. Luke of Mt. Stirion (Greek). New Martyr Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (Greek). New Martyr Mary of Crete. (Greek). St. Mamai, catholicos of Georgia (744). St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, metropolitan of Peritheorion (14th c.). Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th c.). Great-martyr Xenia the Wonderworker of Peloponnesus.