Thursday, 4 June 2026
22 May 2026 on the Old calendar
- Pentecost Thursday
- Icon of the Mother of God “Surety of Sinners” in Korets (1622) (movable feast on Pentecost Thursday)
Liturgical colour: blue
Saints of the day
- St. Metrophanes the first Patriarch of Constantinople († c. 326)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Peter († 1918)
- Venerable Methodius the Abbot of Pashnoshsk († 1392)
- Holy Martyrs Frontasius, Severinus, Severianus and Silanus (1st C)
- Holy Martyr Concordius († c. 175)
- Hieromartyr Astius the Bishop of Dyrrachium (2nd C)
- St. Zosimus, bishop of Babylon in Egypt (6th C)
- New Hieromartyr Joannicius, Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral († 1945)
- Sts Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus (1st C)
- Venerable Sophia of Thrace (10th-11th C)
- Venerable Alonius of Egypt (5th C)
- Venerable Optatus, bishop of Milevum († 376)
- Venerable Eleazar and Nazarius, Wonderworkers of Olonets (15th C)
- New Hieromartyrs Andronicus, Archbishop of Perm, Basil, Archbishop of Chernigov, and those with them († 1918)
Fasting
No fastAny food is fine.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.