August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 18 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 20

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 1 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 19, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 6.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Dormition.

Saints

 * Martyr Andrew Stratelates and 2,593 soldier-martyrs with him, in Cilicia (284-305)
 * Saint Sarah the Righteous (17th century BC)
 * Saint Moses and Sarah of Alexandria (3rd century)
 * Martyrs Timothy, Agapius, and Thecla, of Palestine (304)
 * Martyrs Eutychianus, Strategius and Myron, by fire (304)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Julius, an early martyr in Rome (c. 190)
 * Saint Rufinus, a saint venerated in Mantua in Italy from early times, confessor.
 * Saint Magnus of Anagni, martyr (2nd century)
 * Saint Saint Maginus of Tarragona, hermit (3rd century)
 * Saint Sixtus III, bishop of Rome (440)
 * Saint Marianus, a hermit in the forest of Entreaigues in Berry in France, confessor (c. 515)
 * Saint Donatus, presbyter, born in Orleans in France, he lived as a hermit on Mt Jura near Sisteron in Provence (c. 535)
 * Saint Elaphius, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France (580)
 * Saint Mochta (Mochteus), possibly born in Wales, he founded the monastery of Louth in Ireland (6th century)
 * Saint Bertulf of Bobbio, a monk at Luxeuil in France, then went to Bobbio in Italy where he became abbot on the repose of St Attalas (640)
 * Saint Magnus of Avignon (660)
 * Saint Calminius (Calmilius), a hermit who founded the monasteries of Villars and Mauzac near Riom in France (c. 690)
 * Saint Guenninus, Bishop of Vannes in Brittany (7th century)
 * Saint Namadie (Namadia), wife of St Calminius, as a widow she became a nun at Marsat in France (c. 700)
 * Saint Sebaldus, probably born in England, he lived as a hermit near Vicenza in Italy, then preached with St Willibald in the Reichswald in Germany (c. 770)
 * Saint Credan, eighth Abbot of Evesham Abbey (780)
 * Saint Marinus, Bishop at the monastery of St Peter in Besalú in Catalonia in Spain (c. 800)
 * Saint Badulf (Badour, Badolf), a monk and Abbot of Ainay, near Lyons in France (850)
 * Saint Leovigild and Christopher, monks, martyred in Cordoba under Abderrahman II (852)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Perm (1455)
 * Venerable Theophanes of Docheiariou monastery, the New Wonderworker (16th century)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Saint Nicholas Lebedev, Priest of Tver, New-Martyr (1933)
 * Saint Mary (Korepova), nun and confessor (1942)

Other commemorations

 * "Donskoy" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Theotokos "Of the Don"), commemoration of salvation of Moscow from the Tatar siege (1591)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1646) of St. Gennadius, Abbot of Kostroma (1565)
 * Repose of Abbess Maria (Ushakova) of Diveyevo (1904)
 * Repose of Archimandrite Spyridon (Efimov) (1984), disciple of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco.