May 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# May 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 21

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 7.

## Saints

* Saint Lydia of Thyatira (Lydia of Philippi), mentioned in Acts 16:14-15 (1st century)
* Martyrs Thalelaeus the Unmercenary, at Anazarbus in Cilicia, and his companions Alexander and Asterius (284)
* Martyr Asclas of the Thebaid, Egypt (287)
* Sts. Zabulon and Susanna, of Cappadocia and Jerusalem (parents of St. Nina (Nino), enlightener of Georgia), (4th century)
* Saint Mark the Hermit (Marcus Eremita) (5th century)
* Holy Martyrs of Mamilla, Jerusalem (614)
* Saint Thalassius the Myrrh-gusher, of Libya (648)
* Saints John, Joseph and Nicetas, monks of Nea Moni on Chios (c. 1050)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Plautilla the Roman, martyr, (67)
* Hieromartyr Baudelius, missionary in France and northern Spain, martyred in Nîmes (2nd or 3rd century)
* Virgin-martyr Basilla (304)
* Saint Hilary (Hilarius, Hilaire), Bishop of Toulouse in France (360)
* Saint Anastasius, Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy, in Italy (610)
* Saint Austregisilus (Aoustrille, Outrille), Bishop of Bourges and Confessor (624)
* Saint Theodore of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (778)
* Saint Ethelbert (Albert, Albright), King of East Anglia in England, martyr (794) (see also May 29)
* Saint Alcuin of York, monk (804)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* St. Daumantas (Timothy, Dovmont-Timothy), prince of Pskov (1299)
* Saint Stephen, Abbot of Piperi in Serbia (1697)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Pavel Lazarev, martyred on the feast of Pentecost (1919)
* Venerable Olympiada Verbetska, Igumenia of Kozelschansk women's monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the holy relics (1087) of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (343) (see also: May 9 - Slavonic)
* Uncovering of the relics (1431) of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow, Wonderworker (1378)
* Repose of Schema-monk Cyriacus of Valaam (1798)

## Icon gallery

* St. Lydia of Thyatira.
* St. Marcus Eremita.
* Church of St. Theodore of Pavia, in Pavia.
* The martyred Anglo-Saxon king Æthelberht II of East Anglia (depiction of a brass plate from Hereford Cathedral).
* St. Daumantas of Pskov.
* St. Stephen of Piperi.
* St. Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow.
