Orthodox saints and name days on May 7

Name days on May 7

Akakios, Acacius, Kodratos, Quadratus, Neilos, Nilos, Nilus

Saints and feasts of May 7

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  Akakios of Cappadocia

  Martyr, Ακάκιος

  The Holy Martyr Akakios was a young soldier from Cappadocia who suffered for Christ at the beginning of the fourth century, during the persecutions of the pagan emperors. Denounced as a Christian, he confessed the Lord boldly before his commanders, endured imprisonment and torture without wavering, and was beheaded at Byzantium.

  Name days: Akakios, Acacius

• Sign of the Cross over Jerusalem

  Saint, Σημείο του Τιμίου Σταυρού

  On the morning of May 7 in the year 351, during the reign of the Emperor Constantius, a great Cross of light appeared in the sky above Jerusalem, stretching from Golgotha to the Mount of Olives. It was seen by the whole city and lasted for several hours.

• Kodratos and Companions

  Martyr, Κοδράτος

  Kodratos was a Christian of Nicomedia who, during the persecution of Decius, openly encouraged the imprisoned believers and confessed his own faith before the governor. He was tortured in several cities of Asia Minor and finally beheaded.

  Name days: Kodratos, Quadratus

• Nilus the Myrrhstreamer

  Venerable, Νείλος ο Μυροβλύτης

  Nilus was born in the Peloponnese in the sixteenth century and became a monk on Mount Athos, where he lived as a hermit in a cave near the Great Lavra. After his repose in 1651 myrrh flowed from his relics in such abundance that it ran down the cliff to the sea.

  Name days: Neilos, Nilos, Nilus

• Nilus of Sora

  Venerable, Νείλος της Σόρα

  Nilus was born in the fifteenth century and became a monk of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. He travelled to Mount Athos, where he learned the hesychast tradition, and on his return founded a small skete on the river Sora, living in poverty and continual prayer.

• John Psychaites

  Venerable, Ιωάννης ο Ψυχαΐτης

  John was abbot of the Psycha Monastery in Constantinople in the ninth century. For his defense of the holy icons he was exiled and suffered much at the hands of the Iconoclast emperors.

• Alexis Toth

  Saint, Αλέξιος Τοθ

  Alexis Toth was born in 1854 to a Carpatho-Rusyn family in what is now Slovakia and was ordained a Greek Catholic priest. Sent to Minneapolis, he was rejected by the Latin archbishop, and in 1891 he and his parish returned to the Orthodox Church.