May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 20

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Hieromartyrs Patricius (Patrick), Bishop of Prusa, and with him the Presbyters Acacius, Menander, and Polyenos (c. 100 or c. 362 )
 * Martyrs Calocerus and Parthenius, brothers (250)
 * Martyr Philoterus of Nicomedia (303)
 * Martyr Acoluthus of the Thebaid (303)
 * Martyr Cyriaca (Kyriake) and the six holy virgin-martyrs in Nicomedia (307)
 * Martyr Theotima of Nicomedia (c. 311)
 * Saint John, Bishop of the Goths in Crimea (787)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyr Pudens, the senator (c. 160)
 * Virgin-Martyr Pudentiana (Potentiana), daughter of Saint Pudens the senator (160)
 * Saint Cyril of Trier, Bishop of Trier, (5th century)
 * Saint Adolphus (Hadulf), ascetic of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast, in Arras, and later Bishop of Arras Cambrai in the north of France (728)
 * Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (988)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Monk-martyrs and Confessors of the Monastery of Panagia of Kantara, on Cyprus, who suffered under the Latins (1231):
 * Barnabas, Gennadius, Gerasimus, Germanus (Herman), Theognostus, Theoctistus, Jeremiah, John, Joseph, Conon, Cyril, Maximus and Mark.


 * Right-Believing Great Prince Dmitry Donskoy, Great Prince of Moscow (1389)
 * Venerable Eudoxia of Moscow (in monasticism Euphrosyne), Grand-Duchess of Moscow (1407)
 * Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century):
 * Romulus, Romanus, Nestor, Sisoes, Zosimas, Gregory, Nicodemus, and Cyril, the Sinaites. - disciples of Gregory of Sinai (Mount Athos).


 * Saint Cornelius of Paleostrov, Abbot (1420)
 * Saint John (Ignatius), Prince of Uglich, tonsured as Ignatius in Vologda (1522)
 * Venerable Cornelius of Komel (Vologda), Abbot and Wonderworker (1537)
 * Saint Sergius of Shukhtov (Shukhtom), monk (1609)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Hieromartyr Matthew Voznesensky (1919)
 * Hieromartyr Innocent (Letayev), Archbishop of Kharkiv (1937)
 * Hieromartyr Victor Karakulin (1937)
 * Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagaliuk), Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansk (1938), (see also June 1) and:
 * Hieromartyr: Anthony, Bishop of Belgorod;
 * Hieromartyrs: Mitrophanes Vilgelmsky, Alexander Yeroshov, Michael Deineka, Hippolytus Krasnovsky, Nicholas Kulakov, Basil Ivanov, Nicholas Sadovsky, Maximus Bogdanov, Alexander Saulsky, Paul Bryantsev, and Paul Popov - Priests;
 * Martyrs: Michael (Voznesensky) and Gregory (Bogoyavlensky) (1938)


 * New Hieromartyr Valentine Lukyanov (1940)
 * All New Hieromartyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya) Ukraine (1937,1938,1940,1941)

Other commemorations

 * Entrance into Georgia (323) of Saint Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles (335)
 * Translation of the sacred relics of Saints Julius the Presbyter (401) and Julianus (Giuliano) the Deacon (391)
 * Repose of Schemamonk Cyriacus of Valaam (1798)
 * Repose of Righteous Nicholas Rynin of Vologda (1837)
 * Commemoration of the ascetics of St. Anthony of Syadem Monastery: Elias (also of Valaam), Theophanes, and Dionysius.
 * Synaxis of Hieromartyrs of Kharkiv.
 * Slaying of Priest John Karastamatis of Santa Cruz (1985) (see also: May 6)