Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 AD
- St Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909) (April 24 OC)d. 1909 life on this site
- Our Holy Fathers of Georgia (6th century)A synaxis — several kept together · 6th century
- Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303)Martyr · d. 303
- St Lydia of Philippi (1st century)1st century
- Cyril, Archbishop of JerusalemHierarch
- Repose of St. Nilus, abbot of SoraMonastic · Repose
- Pachomios the New Martyr of PatmosNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
Appointed readings
- Composite 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Composite 4 – Proverbs 10; Wisdom of Solomon 6, 7, 8, 9
- Composite 5 – Wisdom of Solomon 4, 6, 7, 2
- John 10:9–16
- Galatians 1:11–19
- John 10:1–9
- Acts 26:1–5, 12–20
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on May 7 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 20 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.