# May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 20
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
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 or c. 362)
* Martyrs Calocerus and Parthenius, brothers (250)
* Martyr Philoterus of Nicomedia (303)
* Martyr Acoluthus of the Thebaid (303)
* Martyr Cyriaca (Kyriake) and the six holy virgin-martyrs in Nicomedia (307)
* Martyr Theotima of Nicomedia (c. 311)
* Saint John, Bishop of the Goths in Crimea (787)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Pudens, the senator (c. 160)
* Virgin-Martyr Pudentiana (Potentiana), daughter of Saint Pudens the senator (160)
* Saint Cyril of Trier, Bishop of Trier, (5th century)
* 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)
* Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (988)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Monk-martyrs and Confessors of the Monastery of Panagia of Kantara, on Cyprus, who suffered under the Latins (1231):
   * 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)
* Venerable Eudoxia of Moscow (in monasticism Euphrosyne), Grand-Duchess of Moscow (1407)
* Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century):
   * Romulus, Romanus, Nestor, Sisoes, Zosimas, Gregory, Nicodemus, and Cyril, the Sinaites. - disciples of Gregory of Sinai (Mount Athos).
* Saint Cornelius of Paleostrov, Abbot (1420)
* Saint John (Ignatius), Prince of Uglich, tonsured as Ignatius in Vologda (1522)
* Venerable Cornelius of Komel (Vologda), Abbot and Wonderworker (1537)
* Saint Sergius of Shukhtov (Shukhtom), monk (1609)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Hieromartyr Matthew Voznesensky (1919)
* Hieromartyr Innocent (Letayev), Archbishop of Kharkiv (1937)
* Hieromartyr Victor Karakulin (1937)
* Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagaliuk), Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansk (1938), (see also June 1) and:
   * Hieromartyr: Anthony, Bishop of Belgorod;
   * 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;
   * Martyrs: Michael (Voznesensky) and Gregory (Bogoyavlensky) (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Valentine Lukyanov (1940)
* All New Hieromartyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya) Ukraine (1937,1938,1940,1941)

## Other commemorations

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