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August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 1 by 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.
  • Savior of the Apple Feast Day.

    • Saints

  • Martyr Andrew Stratelates and 2,593 soldier-martyrs with him, in Cilicia (284-305)
  • 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 Marianus, a hermit in the forest of Entreaigues in Berry in France, confessor (c. 515)
  • Saint Donatus, 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)

    • Other commemorations

  • "Donskoy" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Theotokos "Of the Don") (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.

    • References

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