Orthodox saints and name days on May 13

Name days on May 13

Glyceria, Glyceri, Glykeria, Glikeria, Sergios, Sergius, Laodikios, Pafsikakos, Pausicacus

Saints and feasts of May 13

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  Glykeria

  Holy Woman, Γλυκερία

  The Holy Martyr Glykeria was a young Christian woman of Thrace who suffered for Christ in the second century. The daughter of a Roman official, she confessed the Lord openly when the pagans of Heraclea gathered for sacrifice, refusing to honor the idols. For this she endured imprisonment and many tortures, and was finally given over to wild beasts, ending her contest with prayer.

  Name days: Glyceria, Glyceri, Glykeria, Glikeria

• Sergios the Confessor

  Venerable, Σέργιος ο Ομολογητής

  Sergios was a nobleman of Constantinople, related to Patriarch Photios, who lived during the second period of Iconoclasm in the ninth century. For his defense of the icons he was stripped of his property and exiled with his family.

  Name days: Sergios, Sergius

• Founders of Iviron: John, Euthymios, George and Gabriel

  Venerable, Ιωάννης, Ευθύμιος, Γεώργιος και Γαβριήλ οι Ίβηρες

  John, a Georgian nobleman, and his son Euthymios came to Mount Athos in the tenth century and, with the support of Saint Athanasios of the Lavra, founded the Monastery of the Iberians. Euthymios translated the Scriptures and Fathers into Georgian, and George the Hagiorite later continued the work as abbot.

• Laodikios the Jailer

  Martyr, Λαοδίκιος

  Laodikios was the guard of the prison where the virgin martyr Glykeria was held at Heraclea in Thrace. Witnessing her endurance and the wonders that accompanied her sufferings, he confessed Christ himself.

  Name days: Laodikios

• Pausikakos of Synnada

  Hierarch, Παυσίκακος Συνάδων

  Pausikakos was born in Apamea in Syria and practiced medicine, healing the sick freely and treating souls as well as bodies. Chosen Bishop of Synnada in Phrygia in the sixth century, he was loved for his charity.

  Name days: Pafsikakos, Pausicacus

• Monastic Martyrs of Iviron

  Martyr, Ιβηρίτες Οσιομάρτυρες

  In the late thirteenth century, when the Emperor Michael VIII sought to impose the union with Rome, the monks of Iviron on Mount Athos refused to accept it. Tradition relates that the elder monks were put aboard a ship and drowned in the sea, while the younger were carried off into captivity.