May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
May 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 8
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 20 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 7th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 24.
Saints
- Martyrs Quadratus of Nicomedia and his companions
- Martyrs Rufinus and Saturninus
- Martyr Maximus
- Hieromartyr Flavius, and Martyrs Augustus and Augustinus Martyr Acacius the centurion at Byzantium
- The Venerable Fathers of Georgia: Saint John of Zedazeni in Georgia, and his 12 disciples :
- Righteous Tarasius the Wonderworker of Lycaonia
- Saint John the Confessor, of Psychaita, on the Bosphorus
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyr Juvenal of Benevento
- Saint Domitianus of Maastricht, bishop
- Saints Serenicus and Serenus, two brothers who became monks and later settled as hermits near the River Sarthe in France
- Saint Placid, Benedictine Abbot of the basilica monastery of St Symphorian in Autun, France
- Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York
- Saint Peter of Pavia
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Nilus of Sora, abbot and wonderworker- New Monkmartyr Pachomius of Mount Athos, of Usaki near Philadelphia
- Saint Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.- Uncovering of the relics of St. Euthymius the Great
- Uncovering of the relics of Saint Nilus the Myrrh-gusher of Mount Athos
- Repose of Schema-Elder Boris of Valaam and Pskov
- Repose of Hieromonk Eulogius of Valaam
Icons
- Icon of the Mother of God of Liubech
- "Zhirovits" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos