24 May
21 commemorations of 24 May in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 6 June of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyrs Meletius Stratelates, Stephen, John, and 1218 soldiers with women and children
- Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the former Magician, Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna, and Palladia, two children Cyriacus and Christian; and
- Twelve tribunes: Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, and Didymus — all of whom suffered in Galatia (c.138-161)
- Venerable Symeon Stylites the Younger of the Wonderful Mountain (c. 596)Ὁ Ὅσιος Συμεὼν ὁ ἐν τῷ Θαυμαστῷ ὄρειsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Kyriakos (Cyriacus) of Evrychou, in Cyprus, the WonderworkerὉ Ὅσιος Κυριακὸς ἐξ Εὐρύχου Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr
- Nun-martyr Martha, abbess of Monemvasia (990)pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Nikita Stylites, Wonderworker of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1186)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Στυλίτηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod and Pskov (1193)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νόβγκοροντsynaxarion.gr · drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Blondina Gobjilă (Blondina of Iași, Mama Blondina), a Confessor from the communist period who was exiled to Siberia for 15 years (1971)orthochristian.com
New martyrs and confessors
- Martyrdom by the Poles of Abbot Anthony, 40 monks, and over 1,000 laymen at the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (1609)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Martyrs Donatian and Rogatian, brothers (299)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Martyr Afra (304)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Robustian, at MilanRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Vincent of Porto, near RomeRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Zöellus, Servilius, Felix, Silvanus, and Diocles, in IstriaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Patrice (Patrick), fourth Bishop of Bayeux in France (c.469)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Elpidios (Elpidius), Bishop of Aversa in Campania, southern Italy (5th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλπίδιος ὁ Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀμβέρσαςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Vincent of Lerins (445)Ὁ Ὅσιος Βικέντιος τῶν Λερίνωνoca.org · synaxarion.gr · patriarchia.ru · Roman Martyrology · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Translation of the relics (c.1067) of St. George of the Holy Mountain and Georgia (1065)pravoslavie.ru
- Inauguration of the church of Virgin Mary in Karrais (Al Kara) of SyriaἘγκαίνια τοῦ ναοῦ τῆς Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Κάρραις τῆς Συρίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Glorification (1988) of Saint Xenia of Petersburg, fool-for-Christ (c.1803)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Monk Cyriacus of Valaam (1818)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Blessed Amphilochius of the Rostov Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery (1824)azbyka.ru · pravoslavie.ru
The list is May 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.