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April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on May 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

  • Martyrs Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius (ca. 138-161)
  • Hieromartyr Paphnutius of Jerusalem and 546 companions martyred with him (284-305) (see also: September 25)
  • Martyrs Hermogenes, Caius, Expeditus, Aristonicus, Rufus and Galatas, at Melitine, in Armenia.
  • Martyrs Christopher, Theonas, and Antoninus, at Nicomedia (303)
  • Saint George the Confessor, Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia (ca. 741-775)
  • Venerable John of the Ancient Caves in Palestine (8th century)
  • Saint Tryphon of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (931)
  • St. Nicephorus, Abbot of Katabad.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Vincent of Collioure, a martyr in Collioure in Languedoc in the south of France, under Diocletian (ca. 304)
  • Saint Crescentius, confessor, a subdeacon in Florence in Italy and a disciple of St Zenobius and St Ambrose (ca. 396)
  • Saint Ursmar, missionary bishop, founder of Aulne Abbey and Wallers Abbey (713)
  • Saint Gerold, hermit at a village near Mitternach (978)
  • Hieromartyr Alphege of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (1012)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Symeon the Barefoot, of Philotheou Monastery, Mount Athos (1594)
  • Venerable Joasaph (Bolotov) of Kodiak, Enlightener of Alaska and the American land (1799)
  • New Monk-martyr Agathangelus of Esphigmenou Monastery, Mt. Athos, at Smyrna (1819)
  • Saint Matrona the Blind, of Moscow (1952)
  • Venerable Sebastian the Confessor of Optina and Karaganda (Elder Sebastian of Optina), Wonderworker and Clairvoyant, last of the great Optina Elders (1966) (see also: April 6)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hiero-confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), Bishop of Glazov (1934)
  • New Hieromartyr Demetrius Vlasenkov, Priest of Alma-Ata (1942)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Translation of the relics of Saint Moses the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Novgorod (1362)
  • Uncovering of the relics (1621) of St. Joachim, founder of Opochka Monastery in Pskov (ca. 1550)
  • Repose of Fool-for-Christ Asenetha of Goritsy (1892)
  • Repose of Hieroschemamonk and Schema-Metropolitan Alexis of Valaam (1900)

    • References

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