24 May 2012, Thursday (11.05 according to the old style)
Ascension of the Lord
A feast that looks like a farewell, and which the Gospel calls a joy. The disciples returned to Jerusalem with great gladness — after their Teacher had left them for good. For forty days after the Resurrection Christ appeared to the apostles: speaking with them, …
More about Ascension of the Lord →Saints commemorated
- Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril (Constantine the Philosopher), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Teacher of the Slavs 826/827 — †14 февраля 869
- Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop Methodius, Archbishop of Moravia, Teacher of the Slavs ок. 815 — †6 апреля 885
- Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius of Thessalonica ок. 815 — 885
- Hierarch Nicodemus, Archbishop of Serbia ? — 1325
- Hieromartyr Mocius of Amphipolis † ок. 288/295
- Venerable Sophronius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves XIII век