19 March
25 commemorations of 19 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 1 April of the civil calendar.
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)Ὁ Ἅγιος Παγχάριος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Righteous Mary (Maria Shvarnovna), wife of Vsevelod III (1206)Ἡ Ὁσία Μαρία ἡ πριγκίπισσαsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Bassa, nun, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1473)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Innocent of Komel the Wonderworker, in Vologda (1521), disciple of St. Nilus of SoraὉ Ὅσιος Ἰννοκέντιος ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Demetrius, at Constantinople (1564)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Τορναρᾶςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk, descendant of the Sovereigns of the Kyivan-Rus' (1612)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ὁ Καραμάνος (ἢ Κασσέτης)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Symeon (Popović), Archimandrite of Dajbabe Monastery, Montenegro (1941)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- Saint John Blinov, Confessor (1932)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Martyr Matrona Alexeeva (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Joseph the Betrothed (1st century)drevo-info.ru
- Saints Quintus, Quintilla, Quartilla, Mark and Companions, martyrs venerated in Sorrento near Naples in Italyorthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Saints Apollonius and Leontius (Leontinus), by tradition early Bishops of Braga in Portugal (4th century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Auxilius, a companion of St Patrick, became Bishop of Killossey (near Naas, County Kildare) in Ireland (c. 460)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- 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)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leontius of Saintes, Bishop of Saintes (640)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- 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)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adrian, disciple of St Landoald, murdered while begging alms for his monastery near Maastricht in the Netherlands (c. 668)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Lactan, born near Cork in Ireland, St Comgall entrusted him to found a monastery at Achadh-Ur, now Freshford, in Kilkenny (672)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alcmund (Alchmund of Derby, or of Lilleshall), martyred in Shropshire (c. 800)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gemus, a monk, probably at Moyenmoutier in Alsace, now in France, his relics were enshrined at Hürbachorthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Smolensk "Umileniye" ("Tender Feeling") Icon of the Most Holy TheotokosΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Τρυφερῆς, ἐν Σμόλενκ Ρωσίαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Mother of God of Lubyatov (15th century)oca.org
- Tenderness Icon of the Mother of God of Rostov (2025)orthochristian.com · patriarchia.ru
The list is March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.