Martha and Mary, Sisters of Lazarus

Righteous Martha and Mary of Bethany, the sisters of Lazarus, friends and disciples of the Lord.

Martha and Mary of Bethany received Christ in their home, and the Gospel records Martha's service and Mary's sitting at the Lord's feet, as well as their faith at the raising of their brother Lazarus. Tradition relates that after Pentecost they left Judea with Lazarus and ended their lives in Cyprus.

Greek women named Martha keep their name day on this feast.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Martha and Mary, Sisters of Lazarus is commemorated on June 4. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on June 17 of the civil calendar.

Who celebrates a name day

People with these names keep their name day on this feast:

Martha, Marta

Also commemorated on June 4

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  Metrophanes of Constantinople

  Hierarch, Μητροφάνης

  First Patriarch of Constantinople.

  Name days: Mitrofanis

• Sophia of Ainos

  Holy Woman, Σοφία η εξ Αίνου

  Venerable Sophia of Ainos in Thrace, a mother of six who became an ascetic and mother to orphans.

• John of Monagria, Monk-Martyr

  Martyr, Ιωάννης ο Οσιομάρτυρας

  Monk-Martyr John, abbot of the monastery of Monagria, drowned by the iconoclasts for venerating the holy icons.

• Alonius the Venerable

  Venerable, Αλώνιος

  Venerable Alonius of Egypt, a desert father whose sayings are preserved in the Apophthegmata.

• Zoticus, Attalus, Kamasis and Philip of Niculitel

  Martyr, Ζωτικός, Άτταλος, Κάμασις και Φίλιππος

  Holy Martyrs Zoticus, Attalus, Kamasis and Philip, who suffered at Noviodunum in Scythia Minor.

• Methodius of Peshnosha

  Venerable, Μεθόδιος ο εκ Ρωσίας

  Venerable Methodius, abbot of Peshnosha, a disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh.