May 3 (Orthodox Liturgics)

May 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 4

• 2005: Bright Tuesday , 2 days after Pascha (Paschal cycle)

Saints

• Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoc in Egypt
• Saint Theodosius , abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic monasticism in Russia
• Saint Peter the Wonderworker , Bishop of Argolis
• Saint Ansfried , Bishop of Utrecht
• Saint Ecumenius of Trikalia , the Wonderworker
• Great-martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus , the Wonderworker
• Martyr Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople
• Martyr Mary of Crete

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion
• "Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos