21 Мая 1953 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, May 21, 1953 (May 8, 1953 by the Julian calendar)
7^th Week after Pascha, Tone six

Venerable David of the Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th-7th c.) (movable holiday on the Thursday of Holy Ascension). +)Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (98-117). St. Arsenius the Great of Scetis (448). St. Arsenius the Lover of Labor (14th c.) and Pimen the Ascetic (12th c.), of the Kiev Caves. Translation of the relics (1785) of St. Arsenius of Novgorod, fool-for-Christ (1570). St. Hierax of Egypt (5th c.). St. Emilia (375), mother of Sts. Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. St. Macarius of Ghent, archbishop (1012) (Neth.). St. Iduberga, foundress of Nijvel (652) (Neth.). Commemoration of the healing of blinded Stephen by the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Cassiopia.