Great Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church - May - Volume 5

The Lives of the Saints in English, together with homilies for major feast days, are arranged around the monthly lectionary calendar of the Orthodox Church.

Within the Orthodox Church these texts are a principal source of information on the saints' struggles, sufferings, and achievements. The hagiographies are furnished with explanatory notes and references. An alphabetical index of the Saints and feast days has been included at the end of each volume.

Compilers include Saint Symeon the Metaphrastes, Agapios the Cretan, Nikodemos the Hagiorite, Efthymios Zigabenos, Dositheos of Jerusalem, Church Fathers, and Athonite writers; also cited are Ecclesiastical Histories, together with Neon Paradeison, Neon Thesavron, Neon Eklogion, Neon Martyrologion, and Ephraim.

This is one of a series of FOURTEEN (14) volumes, entitled : January ; February ; March ; April ; May ; June ; July ; August ; September ; October ; November ; December ; Pentecostarion ; Triodion.

May volume : 197 icons.