May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 20.Saints
- Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Moura of Antinoöpolis in Egypt
- Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning
- Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire.
- Great martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, Wonderworker
- Saint Mamai the Katholikos of Georgia
- Saint Michael of Ulompo, Georgia
- Saint Arsenius of Georgia
- Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis
- Saint Ecumenius, Bishop of Trikala, the Wonderworker
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome
- Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus
- Saint Juvenal of Narni
- Saint Glywys of Cornwall
- Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of St Columba
- Saint Adalsindis, sister of St Waldalenus, founder of the Monastery of Bèze in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze
- Saint Æthelwine, Bishop of Lindsey
- Saint Philip of Worms
- Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia
- St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion
- Schema-abbess Juliana and Schema-nun Eupraxia, of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow
- Saint Gregory Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake
- Martyr the Calligrapher of Constantinople
- Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania
- New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea
- Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Benevolsky, priest of Alma-Ata
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion
- Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople, to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves
- "Svenskaya" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
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