# May 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 28 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 30
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 16.

## Saints

* Martyr Cyril of Caesarea in Cappadocia (251)
* Child-martyr Carellus, with martyrs Primolus, Phinodus, Venustus, Gissinus, Alexander, Tredentius, and Jocunda, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (253-259)
* Hieromartyr Olbian, Bishop of Anaea, and his disciples, in Asia Minor (284-303)
* Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (308)
* Martyrs Andrew (Andras) and his spouse.
* Saint Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria (326)
* Venerable Jeremiah of Damascus.
* Venerable Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Constantinople (730)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Restitutus, at Rome, on the Via Aurelia (299).
* Saint Maximinus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (352)
* Martyrs Sisinius, Martyrius, and Alexander, near Trent, in the time of Emperor Honorius (397)
* Saint Maximus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy (6th century)
* Venerable Votus, Felix and John, hermits in the Pyrenees (750)
* Saint John de Atares (750)
* Saint Ethelbert the King (Æthelberht II of East Anglia) (794) (see also May 20)
* Saint Gerald, a monk at Brou, became Bishop of Mâcon, returned to his monastery 40 years later and reposed there (927)
* Saint Ulric of Einsiedeln (978)
* Saint Eleutherius of Rocca d'Arce, Confessor, at Arcano in Lazio.

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Righteous John and Mary of Ustiug (Vologda) (13th century)
* Venerable Helena Dragaš (Hypomone, Ipomoni of Loutraki) (1450)
* Blessed Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Roman emperor, martyred by the Ottoman Turks (1453)
* New Martyr Andrew of Argentes, in Chios (1465)
* Blessed John of Ustiug, Fool-for-Christ (1494)
* New Martyr John (or Nannus) of Smyrna (1802)
* New Hieromartyr Euthymios (Agritellis) of Zela, in Pontus, Bishop (1921)
* New Hiero-confessor Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea and Surgeon, Unmercenary Wonderworker (1961) (see also June 11)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Hieromartyr John Preobrazhensky (1938)
* Deacon Martyr Andrew Trofimov (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Schemamonk Michael of Valaam (1854)
* Repose of Nun Dorothea of Sukhotin Monastery (1885)
* Uncovering of the relics (2000) of St. Job (Joshua in schema), Schemamonk of Anzersk Island, at Solovki (1720)

### Icons

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Surety of Sinners” in Moscow (1848) (see also March 7)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Non-Slumbering Eye" (“Unsleeping Eye”).
* Icon of the Mother of God "Imperial" (“Tsesarskaya-Borovskaya”).

## Icon gallery

* Icon of Pope Alexander of Alexandria.
* St. Theodosia of Constantinople.
* Church of St. Maximin, in Trier, Germany.
* The monastery of St. John de Atares (San Juan de la Peña (of the rock)) is located at the south-west of Jaca, in Huesca, Spain. It was one of the most important monasteries in Aragon in the Middle Ages.
* St. Æthelberht II of East Anglia.
* Empress Helena Dragaš (St. Ipomoni of Loutraki) with Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, and three of their sons, John, Andronikos and Theodore.
* Icon of Helena Dragaš (St. Ipomoni of Loutraki), in the cave of Saint Patapios in Loutraki - Greece.
* Blessed Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor.
* Supplication of St. Procopius and St. John of Ustiug at the Icon of the Annunciation.
* New Hieromartyr Euthymios (Agritellis) of Zela.