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February 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 20

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 4 (March 3 on leap years) by 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)
  • 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, Bishop 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)

    • 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)

    • References

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