May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
May 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 20.
Saints
Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Moura, at Antinoöpolis, Egypt Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning- Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Byzantium
- Great Martyr Xenia of Kalamata, Peloponnesus
- Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire
- Saint Mamai, Catholicos of Georgia
- Saints Michael and Arsenius of Ulompo, Georgia
- Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, Peloponnese
- Saint Oecumenius the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trikala
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint [Pope Theodora and Didymus|Alexander I|Alexander I], the fifth Pope of Rome
- Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus
- Saint Juvenal of Narni
- Saint Glywys of Cornwall
- Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of Saint Columba
- Saint Adalsindis, sister of Saint Waldalenus, founder of the Monastery of Bèze in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze
- Saint Æthelwine, Bishop of Lindsey
- Saint Philip of Worms
- Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Far Caves Monastery, and Founder of Cenobitic Monasticism in Russia- Saint Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion
- Schema-abbess Juliana and Schema-nun Eupraxia, of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow
- Saint Gregory Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake
- Martyr Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople
- Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania
- New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea
- Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John Vilensky, Priest of Semyonovskoe
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Benevolsky, Priest of Alma-Ata
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion
- Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople, to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves
- "Svenskaya" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Finding of the relics of Saint John of Yaroslavl ''''