May 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 7
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For May 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 23.Saints
- Righteous Job the Long-suffering.
- Martyrs Danax, Mesirus, and Therin
- Martyrs Demetrius, and Donatus
- Saints Mamas, Pachomius, and Hilarion, monks
- Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier, Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea
- Martyr Barbarus in Thessaly, the former robber
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Lucius of Cyrene
- Martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus and seventy-five others in Africa
- St. Benedicta, virgin, mystic and nun, lived in a convent founded by St. Galla in Rome
- Saint Edbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino
Post-Schism Orthodox Saint
- Saint Vladimir II Monomakh, Sovereign of Kievan Rus'
- Venerable Micah, the disciple of the Saint Sergius of Radonezh
- Venerable Sinaites of Serbia :
- Saint
- Venerable Job of Pochaev, abbot and wonderworker
- Blessed Sophia of Kleisoura, the ascetic of Kleisoura, Fool-for-Christ
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of Saint Sava, first archbishop of Serbia
- Translation of the relics of Saint Pachomius of Nerekhta
- Commemoration of Theophylact Lopatinsky, Archbishop of Tver, Defender of Orthodoxy
- Birthday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II
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