The Ninth volume of the New Synaxarion of the Orthodox Church by Makarios of Simonopetra. Within its pages, the reader will find all the saints celebrated by our Orthodox Church in the month of May. Saints Constantine the Great and his mother Helen, Saint Pelagia, Saint Irene, Saint Ephraim the Newly-Revealed, Saint Arsenius, Prophet Isaiah, Saint Christopher, Saint Martyr Theodosia, as well as other martyrs, neomartyrs from the Greek region and newly-revealed saints of the Eastern Churches illuminate our every day with their lives and martyrdom. [Excerpt from publisher or edition presentation text]