# May 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 22
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 8.

## Saints

* Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine (337), and Empress Helena, his mother (327)
* Martyrs Polyeuctus, Victorinus, and Donatus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia.
* Hieromartyr Secundus and those with him, in Alexandria (356)
* Saint Adelphios, Bishop of Onouphis, in Byzantine Egypt (c. 362, or c. 431)
* Saint Boros, monk.
* Saint Christopher I, Patriarch of Antioch (967)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Hieromartyrs Timothy, Polius and Eutychius, deacons, in Mauretania Caesariensis (Morocco).
* Hieromartyr Valens and Companions, Bishop who was martyred in Auxerre in France along with three children.
* Martyr Secundinus, in Cordoba in Spain under Diocletian (c. 306)
* Saint Hospitius the Hermit of Nice, Wonderworker (581)
* Saint Barrfoin (Bairrfhionn, Barrindus) of Killbarron (6th century)
* Saint Gollen (Collen, Colan) of Denbighshire, a saint who has given his name to Llangollen in Wales (7th century)
* Saint Isberga (Itisberga) of Aire, reputed sister of Charlemagne, nun at Aire (Aria) in the Artois, of which she is the patroness (c. 800)
* Saint Ageranus (Ayran, Ayrman) of Beze, a monk at Bèze in France, martyred by the Vikings (888)
* Saint Theobald (Thibaud), Archbishop of Vienne (970-1001)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Blessed Constantine (Yaroslav), prince, and his children Michael and Theodore, Wonderworkers of Murom (1129)
* Saint Cyril II (Kirill), Bishop of Rostov (1262)
* Saint Basil of Ryazan, Bishop (1295)
* Saint Helen of Decani, Serbia, Princess (c. 1350)
* Venerable Cassian the Greek, monk of Uglich, Wonderworker (1504)
* Saint Agapitus of Markushev (Vologda) the Hieromartyr, Abbot (1584)
* Saint Constantine the Fool-for-Christ, of Novotorzanin, Russia (c. 16th century)
* New Martyrs King Constantine Brancoveanu of Wallachia and his four sons Constantine, Stephen, Radu, and Matthew, and his counsellor Ianache (1714)
* Martyr Pachomios of Patmos (1730)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Synaxis of Hieromartyrs of Karelia.
* Synaxis of Hieromartyrs of Ufa.

## Other commemorations

* Uncovering of the relics (1998) of St. Andrew Ogorodnikov, fool-for-Christ of Simbirsk (1841)
* Repose of Elena Pavlova of Chepel, Kharkiv (1885)
* Repose of Elder Isaac of Dionysiou Monastery of Mount Athos (1932)
* The Anastenaria fire-walking ritual is performed from May 21–23 in some villages in Northern Greece and Southern Bulgaria, coinciding with the feast of Constantine and Helen.
* Synaxis of all saints of Karelia,

### Icons

* Synaxis of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1521)
* Synaxis of the "Virgin of Tenderness" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from Pskov-Pechersk (1524)

## Icon gallery

* Sts Constantine and Helena, Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles.
* Sts Constantine and Helena, Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles (Mosaic in Saint Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Russia).
* Stained glass window ( 1986 ) showing St Collen (Llangollen, Wales - St.Collen parish church)
* Icon of the Saints of Murom.
* King Constantin Brâncoveanu of Wallachia, and his sons (Church mural in Hurezi Monastery).
* “Vladimir” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
* Mosaic icon of the Virgin of Tenderness, with the eponym "Episkepisis"("The Visitation"). From Triglia in Asia Minor, Church of Saint Basil (late 13th century)