May 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 17 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 29 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For May 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 3. Saints Hieromartyr Alexander of Jerusalem, Archbishop (251) Saint Papylinus the Martyr Martyrs Bachtisius, Isaac and Symeon of Persia (339) Saint Theodore the Sanctified of Tabennisi, disciple of Saint Pachomios the Great (367) Martyrs Abda (Audas) and Abdjesus (Audiesus) the Bishops, Benjamin, and 38 other martyrs at Beth-Kashkar in the Persian Empire, under Ardashir II (375), including: 16 priests, 9 deacons, 6 monks, and 7 unnamed virgins. Saint Neadius (Neadios), Bishop and Wonderworker. Saint Bardas, founder of the monastery of the Forerunner in Petra, Constantinople (5th-6th century) Martyrdom of the 44 Holy Sabaite fathers, monk-martyrs of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, massacred by the Saracens (610 or 614) Martyr Peter of Blachernae (761) Saint Thomas I, Patriarch of Jerusalem (820) Saint George of Mitylene, Bishop (821 or 842) Saint Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (925) Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Fort (Fort de Bordeaux), first Bishop of Bordeaux in France, venerated as a martyr (c. 1st century?) Saint Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni (138) Saint Peregrine of Auxerre, martyr, the first bishop of Auxerre and the builder of its first cathedral (261 or 304) Martyrs Felix and Gennadius, at Uzalis in Africa Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia at Lucania (c. 303) Saint Hilary, Bishop of Pavia, one of the bishops in the north of Italy who fought against Arianism (376) Saint Possidius, Bishop of Calama in Numidia in North Africa, a friend of Saint Augustine of Hippo (c. 370 - c. 440) Saint Primael, ascetic, from Britain, he went to Brittany and became a hermit near Quimper (c. 450) Blessed child-saint Musa of Rome (5th century) Saint Carantac (Carantog, Caimach, Carnath), Welsh prince who aided St Patrick in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th century) Saint Fidolus (Phal), Abbot at Isle-Aumont, south of Troyes (c. 540 - 549) Saint Germerius, Bishop of Toulouse in France for fifty years (560) Saint Brendan the Navigator, abbot of Clonfert (c. 577) Saint Domnolus, Bishop of Le Mans (581) Saint Carantoc, an abbot who founded the church of Llangrannog in Wales (6th century) Saint Honoratus of Amiens, the seventh bishop of Amiens (c. 600) Saint Annobert (Alnobert), a monk at Almenêches, consecrated Bishop of