February 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 18 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 20

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 4 (March 3 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy Apostles, and Martyr Apphia (1st century)
 * Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius, and Asclepiodota of Adrianopolis (305-311)
 * Venerable Saints Eugene and Macarius, Priests, Confessors at Antioch (363)
 * Saint Mesrop the Translator, of Armenia (439) (see also: February 17 - Greek)
 * Venerable Rabulas of Samosata (c. 530)
 * Venerable Conon, Abbot in Palestine (555)
 * Saint Dositheus of Gaza, disciple of Saint Abba Dorotheus (7th century)
 * Venerable Sophronios, Bishop.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Gabinus, a martyr in Rome who was related to the Emperor Diocletian, but also the brother of Pope Gaius, and father of the martyr St Susanna (c. 295)
 * Saint Quodvultdeus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa, exiled by the Arian Genseric King of the Vandals after the capture of the city in 439 (450)
 * Saint Valerius (Valére), Bishop of Antibes in the south of France (c. 450)
 * Saint Odran, ranks as the first Christian martyr in Irish history (c. 452)
 * Saints Publius, Julian, Marcellus and Companions, martyrs in North Africa.
 * Saint Barbatus of Benevento, took part in the Sixth Oecumenical Council in Constantinople at which Monothelitism was condemned (682)
 * Saint Mansuetus, Archbishop of Milan and Confessor, he wrote a treatise against Monothelitism (c. 690)
 * Saint Beatus of Liébana, a monk at Liebana and was famous for his firm stand against Adoptionism (789)
 * Saint George of Lodève, a monk at Saint-Foi-de-Conques in Rouergue but later moved to Vabres and became Bishop of Lodève (c. 884)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Yaroslav the Wise, son of the Varangian (Viking) Grand Prince Vladimir the Great (1054) (see also: February 20 - Slavonic; and February 28)
 * New Nun-martyr Philothea of Athens (1588)
 * Venerable Theodore, Abbot of Sanaxar Monastery (1791)
 * New Hieromartyr Nicetas, Hieromonk, of Epirus and Mt. Athos, at Serres (1809)  (see also: April 4)
 * Saint Maria, desert-dweller of Olonets (1860) (see also: February 9)
 * Saint Nikanor (Savić) the New, Abbot of Hilandar (1990)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir (Terentiev), Abbot, of Zosima Hermitage, Smolensk (1933)
 * New Martyr Demetrius Volkov (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God of Cyprus (392)  (see also: February 16)

Greek Sources

 * Great Synaxaristes: 19 Φεβρουαρίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
 * Συναξαριστής. 19 Φεβρουαρίου. Ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ).

Russian Sources

 * 4 марта (19 февраля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
 * 19 февраля (ст.ст.) 4 марта 2014 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).