title: May 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # 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.
  