Saints

• Apostles Andronicus of Pannonia
  Andronicus of Pannonia
  Andronicus of Pannonia was a 1st century Christian mentioned by the Apostle Paul: According to that verse, Andronicus was a kinsman of Paul and a fellow prisoner at some time, particularly well-known among the apostles, and had become a follower of Jesus Christ before Paul's Damascus road conversion...
  
   and his fellow labourer Junia
  Junia
  Junia or Junias was a 1st century Christian highly regarded and complimented by the apostle Paul: Paul describes Junia as kinsmen, fellow prisoners, and as being "in Christ" before Paul's dramatic Damascus road conversion...
  
  , of the Seventy Apostles (1st c.)
• Saint Restituta
  Restituta
  Saint Restituta is a saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.-Biography:...
  
   the martyr, in Carthage (255 or 304)
• Martyrs Heradius, Paul, and Aquilinus, near Lake Geneva
  Lake Geneva
  Lake Geneva or Lake Léman is a lake in Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe. 59.53 % of it comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland , and 40.47 % under France...
  
   (284-305)
• Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon, at Chalcedon
  Chalcedon
  Chalcedon , sometimes transliterated as Chalkedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari . It is now a district of the city of Istanbul named Kadıköy...
  
   (ca.286-305)
• Martyrs Adrion, Victor and Basilla, in Alexandria.
• Saint Theodoret of Antioch
  Theodoret of Antioch
  Saint Theodoret was a Greek-speaking Syrian Christian priest who died a martyr in Antioch during the reign of Emperor Julian the Apostate. His life is recorded only by apologetic works.-Life:...
  
  , Hieromartyr, (361–363)
• Saint Maden (Madern, Madron
  Madron
  Madron is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a large rural parish on the Penwith peninsula north of Penzance.Madron village is situated approximately two miles northwest of Penzance town centre....
  
  , Madrona) (ca.545)
• Saint Cathán
  Saint Cathan
  Saint Cathan, also known as Catan, Cattan, etc., was a 6th-century Irish monk revered as a saint in parts of western Scotland. He appears in the Aberdeen Breviary, Walter Bower's Scotichronicon, and the Acta Sanctorum, and a number of placenames in western Scotland are associated with him...
  
   (Catan, Chattan, Cadan), Bishop in the Isle of Bute
  Isle of Bute
  Bute is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Formerly part of the county of Buteshire, it now constitutes part of the council area of Argyll and Bute. Its resident population was 7,228 in April 2001.-Geography:...
  
   in Scotland (6th c.)
• Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th c.)
• Saint Mailduf (Maidulph, Maelduib), founder of Malmesbury Abbey
  Malmesbury Abbey
  Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex. In 941 AD, King Athelstan was buried in the Abbey. By the 11th century it contained the second largest library in Europe and was...
  
   (673)
• Saint Gerebernus (Gerebern, Gerebrand), Hieromartyr, priest from Ireland who accompanied St Dymphna
  Dymphna
  'Saint Dymphna was the daughter of a pagan Irish king and his Christian wife in the 7th century. She was murdered by her father. The story of St. Dymphna was first recorded in the thirteenth century by a canon of the Church of St. Aubert at Cambrai, commissioned by the Bishop of Cambrai, Guy I...
  
   to Belgium and shared in her martyrdom (7th c.)
• Saint Stephen the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (893)
• Saint Rasso
  Rasso
  Saint Rasso of Andechs was a Bavarian count and military leader, pilgrim, and saint. He was the count of Dießen-Andechs, leading the Bavarians against invading Magyars in the tenth century...
  
   (Ratho), ascetic, founder of a Benedictine abbey at Wörth, later named Grafrath
  Grafrath
  Grafrath is a municipality in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria in Germany. It takes its name from Saint Rasso , who was a count who founded a Benedictine abbey here in the 10th century.- References :...
  
   after him (953)
• Venerable Eudokia (in monasticism Euphrosyne), Grand-Duchess of Moscow (1407)
• Saints Nectarius (1550) and Theophanes (1544) of Meteora
  Meteora
  The Metéora is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains, in...
  
  
• Great-martyr Nicholas of Sofia (1555)
• Saint Nicolas (Basdanis) the New Martyr (St Nicolas the Vlach) (1617)
• Saint Athanasius the New, Bishop and Wonderworker of Christianopolis (1707 or 1735)
• New Martyr Eleazar (Lazarus), of the town of Vasen in Russia, martyred for the faith near Olonets
  Olonets
  Olonets is a town and the administrative center of Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on the Olonka River, to the east from Lake Ladoga. Population: -History:...
  
   (18th c.)
• Saint Jonah Atamansky, Archpriest of Odessa (1924)

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Fall of Jerusalem in 614 AD to the Persians, with the loss of the True Cross
  True Cross
  The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by a Christian tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.According to post-Nicene historians, Socrates Scholasticus and others, the Empress Helena The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by a...
  
   to Persia, damage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the walled Old City of Jerusalem. It is a few steps away from the Muristan....
  
   by fire, and the martyrdom of over 65,000 Christians (614)
• Translation of the relic
  Relic
  In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...
  
  s (1551) of Saint Adrian of Ondrusov
  Adrian of Ondrusov
  Venerable Adrian of Ondrusov was a Russian Orthodox monk and saint, venerated as a Wonderworker.Born Andrew Zavalushin into a noble family, he was the owner of a rich estate , which was located not far from the monastery of Saint Alexander of Svir...
  
  (Valaam), Abbot (1549)

Sources

• May 17/30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• May 30 / May 17. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A a parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• May 17. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• May 17. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• May 17. The Roman Martyrology.

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