5th Week after Pentecost.
St. Joanna the Myrrh-bearer (1st c.). St. Sampson the Hospitable, of Constantinople (ca. 530). Uncovering of the relics of Optina Elders Leonid, Macarius, Hilarion, Ambrose , Anatole I, Barsanuphius, and Anatole II (1998). St. Severus , priest, of Interocrea in Italy (6th c.). St. George of the Holy Mountain and Georgia (1065). Blessed Martin of Turov (after 1146). St. Serapion of Kozhaezersk Monastery (1611). New Hieromartyr Gregory Nikolsky, priest, of Kuban (1918). New Hieromartyr Kirion II, catholicos-patriarch of Georgia (1918). Hieromartyrs Crescens, Maximus, and Theonest, bishops of Mainz (Germany) (early 5th c.). Martyr Anectus of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304). Martyrdom of Monk Luke (Mukhaidze) of Holy Cross Monastery in Jerusalem (1277). Hieromartyr Pierius, priest, of Antioch.