Trans. Rel. Boris and Gleb
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Translation of the Relics (1072 and 1115) of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, princes of Russia (1015)Translation of relics · 1015
What is known
A translation is the moving of a saint's relics from one resting place to another, often into a church built for them. The Church keeps the day of the move as well as the day of the death.
The title places it at Russia. The year given is 1015.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- Saint Matrona (the Blind) of Moscow (1952)d. 1952
What is known
The title places them at Moscow. The year given is 1952.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- St Athanasius the Great, Patriarch of of AlexandriaHierarch
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Alexandria.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Holy Martyrs Hesperus, his wife Zoë, and their sons Cyriac and Theodulus (2nd century)Martyr · 2nd century
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The year given is the 2th century.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Holy Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (907)d. 907
What is known
The title places them at Bulgaria. The year given is 907.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Jordan the WonderworkerWonderworker
What is known
Wonderworker records that miracles were attributed to this saint, during life or at the relics afterwards. It is a statement about what the Church received, not a claim this site can check.
Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on May 2 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 15 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.