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March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

  • Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them in Rome (283):
  • Claudius the Tribune, his wife Hilaria, their sons Jason and Maurus, the priest Diodorus, and the deacon Marianus.
  • Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia (302)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saints Quintus, Quintilla, Quartilla, Mark and Companions, martyrs venerated in Sorrento near Naples in Italy.
  • Saints Apollonius and Leontius (Leontinus), by tradition early Bishops of Braga in Portugal (4th century)
  • Saint Auxilius, a companion of St Patrick, became Bishop of Killossey (near Naas, County Kildare) in Ireland (c. 460)
  • Saint John the Syrian of Pinna, a Syrian monk who settled in Pinna near Spoleto in Italy, became abbot of a large monastic colony there for forty-four years (6th century).
  • Saint Leontius of Saintes, Bishop of Saintes (640)
  • Saint Adrian, disciple of St Landoald, murdered while begging alms for his monastery near Maastricht in the Netherlands (c. 668)
  • Saints Landoald and Amantius, a priest and deacon who helped enlighten what is now Belgium and north-eastern France, founded the church at Wintershoven (c. 668)
  • Saint Lactan, born near Cork in Ireland, St Comgall entrusted him to found a monastery at Achadh-Ur, now Freshford, in Kilkenny (672)
  • Saint Alcmund (Alchmund of Derby, or of Lilleshall), martyred in Shropshire (c. 800)
  • Saint Gemus, a monk, probably at Moyenmoutier in Alsace, now in France; his relics were enshrined at Hürbach.

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Righteous Mary (Maria Shvarnovna), wife of Vsevelod III (1206)
  • Saint Bassa, nun, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1473)
  • Venerable Innocent of Komel the Wonderworker, in Vologda (1521), disciple of St. Nilus of Sora.
  • New Martyr Demetrius, at Constantinople (1564)
  • Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk, descendant of the Sovereigns of the Kyivan-Rus' (1612)
  • New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657)
  • Saint Symeon (Popovic), Archimandrite of Dajbabe Monastery, Montenegro (1941)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • Saint John Blinov, Confessor (1932)
  • New Martyr Matrona Alexeeva (1938)

    • Other commemorations

  • Smolensk "Umileniye" ("Tender Feeling") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
  • Icon of the Mother of God of Lubyatov (15th century)

    • References

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