May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 20

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

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^[1] or c. 362^[2])^{[3][4][note 2]}
• Martyrs Calocerus and Parthenius, brothers (250)^{[6][7][8][note 3]}
• Martyr Philoterus of Nicomedia (303)^[7][10]
• Martyr Acoluthus of the Thebaid (303)^{[11][note 4]}
• Martyr Cyriaca (Kyriake) and the six holy virgin-martyrs in Nicomedia (307)^[7][12]
• Martyr Theotima of Nicomedia (c. 311)^[1][13]
• Saint John, Bishop of the Goths in Crimea (787)^[1][2]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyr Pudens, the senator (c. 160)^[7][8][14]
• Virgin-Martyr Pudentiana (Potentiana), daughter of Saint Pudens the senator (160)^{[7][8][15][16]}
• Saint Cyril of Trier, Bishop of Trier, (5th century)^[8][17]
• 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)^[8][18]
• Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (988)^[8][19][20]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Monk-martyrs and Confessors of the Monastery of Panagia of Kantara, on Cyprus, who suffered under the Latins (1231):^[1][21]

• 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)^{[1][2][22][23][note 5]}
• Venerable Eudoxia of Moscow (in monasticism Euphrosyne), Grand-Duchess of Moscow (1407)^[25][26]
• Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century):^{[27][note 6]}

• Romulus, Romanus, Nestor, Sisoes, Zosimas, Gregory, Nicodemus, and Cyril, the Sinaites. - disciples of Gregory of Sinai (Mount Athos).

• Saint Cornelius of Paleostrov, Abbot (1420)^[1][28]
• Saint John (Ignatius), Prince of Uglich, tonsured as Ignatius in Vologda (1522)^[1][29]
• Venerable Cornelius of Komel (Vologda), Abbot and Wonderworker (1537)^[1][30]
• Saint Sergius of Shukhtov (Shukhtom), monk (1609)^[1][31]

New martyrs and confessors

• Hieromartyr Matthew Voznesensky (1919)^[22][32]
• Hieromartyr Innocent (Letayev), Archbishop of Kharkiv (1937)^[9]
• Hieromartyr Victor Karakulin (1937)^[2][22]
• Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagaliuk), Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansk (1938),^[1][22][33] (see also June 1) and:

• Hieromartyr: Anthony, Bishop of Belgorod;^[22]
• 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;^[22][32]
• Martyrs: Michael (Voznesensky) and Gregory (Bogoyavlensky) (1938)^{[1][2][22][32]}

• New Hieromartyr Valentine Lukyanov (1940)^[2][22]
• All New Hieromartyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya) Ukraine (1937,1938,1940,1941)^{[9][34][note 7][note 8]}

Other commemorations

• Entrance into Georgia (323) of Saint Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles (335)^[1][36]
• Translation of the sacred relics of Saints Julius the Presbyter (401) and Julianus (Giuliano) the Deacon (391)^[37]
• Repose of Schemamonk Cyriacus of Valaam (1798)^[1]
• Repose of Righteous Nicholas Rynin of Vologda (1837)^[1]
• Commemoration of the ascetics of St. Anthony of Syadem Monastery: Elias (also of Valaam), Theophanes, and Dionysius.^[1]
• Synaxis of Hieromartyrs of Kharkiv.^[1][2]
• Slaying of Priest John Karastamatis of Santa Cruz (1985)^[38] (see also: May 6)

Icon gallery

• 
  St. Pudens.
• 
  St. Pudentiana.
• 
  Apse mosaic from the Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
• 
  St. Dunstan.
• 
  St. Dmitry Donskoy.
• 
  St. Onuphrius (Gagaliuk), Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansk.
• 
  St. Nino, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
• 
  St. Julius of Novara.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. The Greek Orthodox Arab-speaking Community of the town Zdeinde in north Israel, at the district of Acre, has a Holy Church in honour of St. Patrick, Bishop of Prusa.^[5] Name days celebrated today include:

   • Patrick (Πατρίκιος).
3. He is the patron of Galicia, and his relics are enshrined at Zhovkva.^[9]
4. The term "Akolouthos" also refers to a Byzantine military office.
5. The Great Synaxaristes also has an entry for Saint Dmitry Donskoy on May 9th as well.^[24]
6. These are commemorated on May 6 in the Slavonic Menaion.
7. The Great Synaxaristes also includes a brief entry on May 9 for the New Martyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya) Ukraine.^[35]
8. The Great Synaxaristes for May 19 includes a list of names (in Greek) of 27 Hieromartyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya), Ukraine, as follows:

   • 1930: (in Greek) Παῦλος Μιχαήλοβιτς Κρασνοκούτσκϊυ (jailed 1930);
   • 1937: (in Greek) Βαρσανούφιος, κατὰ κόσμον Βαλεντίνος Μιχαήλοβιτς Μάμτσιτς; Ἰάκωβος Ἰβάνοβιτς Ρεντοζούμπωφ, πρωτοπρεσβύτερος; Πέτρος Βερθολομέεβιτς Ντοροσένκο, πρωτοπρεσβύτερος; Ἱλαρίων Νικολάεβιτς Ζούκωφ, διάκονος; Ἀντώνιος Ἀρτέμοβιτς Γκόρμπαν, διάκονος; Ἰωάννης Βασίλεβιτς Τίμονωφ, διάκονος; Βλαδίμηρος Νικολάεβιτς Βασιλέφσκϊυ, διάκονος; Νικόλαος Τιμοφέεβιτς Μιγκούλιν, διάκονος; Βίκτωρ Νικολάεβιτς Γιαβόρκσϊυ, διάκονος; Διονύσιος Ἀντρέεβιτς Καγκόβετς; Στέφανος Ἀλεξάντροβιτς Ἀντρόνωφ; Ἰωάννης Πέτροβιτς Θεοντόρωφ; Λουκιανὸς Πέτροβιτς Θεντότωφ; Ἀλέξιος Νικολάεβιτς Ταταρίνωφ; Ἰάκωβος Ἰλίτς Ματυνένκο; Παΐσιος Γρηγόρεβιτς Μόσκοτ; Νικόλαος Σεργκέεβιτς Ἐφίμωφ;
   • 1938: (in Greek) Κυπριανός, κατὰ κόσμον Λέων Νικολάεβιτς Γιανκόβσκϊυ; Ἀλεξάντροβιτς Προτόποπωφ; Σπυρίδων Μακάροβιτς Ἐβτουσένκο; Ἰωάννης Ἀντρέεβιτς Κονονένκο; Φίλιππος Μιχαήλοβιτς Ὀρντίνετς; Ἀνδρέας Νικήτοβιτς Μισένκο;
   • 1940: (in Greek) Σέργιος Παύλοβιτς Ζίπουλιν, διάκονος;
   • 1941: (in Greek) Νικόλαος Μιχαήλοβιτς Ζαγκορόφασκϊυ, πρωτοπρεσβύτερος; Ἰωάννης Θέντοροφ, διάκονος;