12 Мая 1940 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, May 12, 1940 (April 29, 1940 by the Julian calendar)
3-rd Sunday of Pascha, The Myrrh-bearing Women, Tone two

Sts. Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha). Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia (movable holiday on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women). Nine Martyrs at Cyzicus: Theognes, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemas, Magnus, Theodotus, Thaumasius, and Philemon (3rd c.). St. Memnon the Wonderworker of Corfu (2nd c.). St. Nektary of Optina (1928). Martyrs Diodorus and Rhodopianus, deacon, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia (284-305). St. Basil, bishop of Ostrog in Montenegro (Serbia) (1671). Saint John of Romania. St. Secundellas the Deacon, in Gaul (Gaul). Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy (Greek). Virginmartyr Kerkyra (1st c.) (Greek). St. John, metropolitan of Thebes, the new merciful one (12th c.) (Greek). St. John Tolaius, patriarch of Alexandria (482). St. Nicetas, abbot of Synnada (9th c.). St. Arsenius, archbishop of Suzdal (1627). Holy Martyrs of Lazeti (Georgia) (17th-18th c.). New Martyr Stanko the Shepherd of Montenegro (1712). St. Nicephorus of Sebaze (9thc.).