On 19 May the Orthodox celebrates Remembrance Day of St. Venerable Job of Pochayiv.

The feast day of St. Alexis Tovt is on 7 May.

The Ecclesial fullness remembers St. Irene martyr feast on 18 May; she lived in I century. Irene was a daughter of pagan governor of one Macedonian cities and her pre-Christian name was Penelope.

St. Nicolas Cathedral of Brooklyn is the main church of Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

The Church celebrates Remembrance Day of St. Athanasius of Constantinople, Kharkiv and Lubny on 15 May.

Hieromonk Juvenaly (secular name is Jacob Govorukhin) was born in 1761 in the family of facility workman in Ekaterinburg. In youth he worked on local factories, just like his father before him. In 1791 Jacob decided to go to Valaam monastery.

On 14 May the Church venerates memory of St. right-believing Queen Tamara the Great.

St. John of and San Francisco Shanghai (Mikhail Maximovitch is the name of future Archbishop) was born in 1896 to the family of faithful nobles in the village of Adamovka (today this is Donetsk region, Ukraine). St. John of Tobolsk was his forefather on paternal line. From an early age he loved prayer, reading the life […]

Saint Herman of Alaska is considered to be the patron of America. The Day of his Remembrance is on 9 August.

On 12 May the Orthodox Church remembers St. Venerable Nectarius of Optina who lived at the turn of XIX and XX centuries.