May 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Hieromartyr Alexander of Jerusalem, Archbishop
• Saint Papylinus the Martyr
• Martyrs Bachtisius, Isaac and Symeon of Persia
• Saint of Tabennisi, disciple of Saint Pachomios the Great
• Martyrs Abda and Abdjesus the Bishops, Benjamin, and 38 other martyrs at Beth-Kashkar in the Persian Empire, under Ardashir II, including:
• Saint Neadius, Bishop and Wonderworker.
• Saint Bardas, founder of the monastery of the Forerunner in Petra, Constantinople
• Martyrdom of the 44 Holy Sabaite fathers, monk-martyrs of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, massacred by the Saracens
• Martyr Peter of Blachernae
• Saint Thomas I, Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Saint George of Mitylene, Bishop
• Saint Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Fort, first Bishop of Bordeaux in France, venerated as a martyr
• Saint Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni
• Saint Peregrine of Auxerre, martyr, the first bishop of Auxerre and the builder of its first cathedral
• Martyrs Felix and Gennadius, at Uzalis in Africa
• Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania
• Saint Hilary, Bishop of Pavia, one of the bishops in the north of Italy who fought against Arianism
• Saint Possidius, Bishop of Calama in Numidia in North Africa, a friend of Saint Augustine of Hippo
• Saint Primael, ascetic, from Britain, he went to Brittany and became a hermit near Quimper
• Blessed child-saint Musa of Rome
• Saint Carantac, Welsh prince who aided St Patrick in the enlightenment of Ireland
• Saint Fidolus, Abbot at Isle-Aumont, south of Troyes
• Saint Germerius, Bishop of Toulouse in France for fifty years
• Saint Brendan the Navigator, abbot of Clonfert
• Saint Domnolus, Bishop of Le Mans
• Saint Carantoc, an abbot who founded the church of Llangrannog in Wales
• Saint Honoratus of Amiens, the seventh bishop of Amiens
• Saint Annobert, a monk at Almenêches, consecrated Bishop of Séez in France
• Saint Franchy, a monk at St Martin de la Bretonnière in France, later a hermit in the Nivernais

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saints Cassian and Laurence, disciples of Venerable Cornelius of Komel, Abbots of Komel, Vologda.
• New Hieromartyr Teodor of Vršac, Bishop of Vršac in Banat, Serbia
• New Martyr Nicholas of Metsovo, at Trikala, whose relics are at Meteora

  New martyrs and confessors

• Venerable Hieromonk :ru:Матфей Яранский|Matthew of Yaransk the Wonderworker
• New Martyr, under the Ustashi terrorists

  Other commemorations

• Foundation of the church of Saint Euphemia, near the Neorion, by the Dolmabahçe Palace of Constantinople.
• Translation of the relics of Saint Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop, Wonderworker of Novgorod
• Commemoration of Saint Macarius of Corinth in the village of Myloi, Samos island.

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