16 Мая 2021 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, May 16, 2021 (May 3, 2021 by the Julian calendar)
3-rd Sunday of Pascha, The Myrrh-bearing Women, Tone two

Sts. Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha). Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia (movable holiday on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women). 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.