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19 August

33 commemorations of 19 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 1 September of the civil calendar.

Feasts

Saints

  • Martyr Andrew Stratelates and 2,593 soldier-martyrs with him, in Cilicia (284-305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνδρέας ὁ Στρατηλάτης καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ 2.593 Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Sarah the Righteous (17th century BC)drevo-info.ru
  • Saint Moses and Sarah of Alexandria (3rd century)drevo-info.ru
  • Martyrs Timothy, Agapius, and Thecla, of Palestine (304)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τιμόθεος, Ἀγάπιος καὶ Θέκλα οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Eutychianus, Strategius and Myron, by fire (304)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐτυχιανὸς καὶ Στρατήγιος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Perm (1455)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Theophanes of Docheiariou monastery, the New Wonderworker (16th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοφάνης ὁ Θαυματουργός ὁ Νέοςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • Saint Nicholas Lebedev, Priest of Tver, New-Martyr (1933)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Saint Mary (Korepova), nun and confessor (1942)drevo-info.ru

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 Julius, an early martyr in Rome (c. 190)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Rufinus, a saint venerated in Mantua in Italy from early times, confessorRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Magnus of Anagni, martyr (2nd century)
  • Saint Saint Maginus of Tarragona, hermit (3rd century)
  • Saint Sixtus III, bishop of Rome (440)
  • Saint Marianus, a hermit in the forest of Entreaigues in Berry in France, confessor (c. 515)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Donatus, presbyter, born in Orleans in France, he lived as a hermit on Mt Jura near Sisteron in Provence (c. 535)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Elaphius, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in France (580)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Mochta (Mochteus), possibly born in Wales, he founded the monastery of Louth in Ireland (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Bertulf of Bobbio, a monk at Luxeuil in France, then went to Bobbio in Italy where he became abbot on the repose of St Attalas (640)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Magnus of Avignon (660)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Calminius (Calmilius), a hermit who founded the monasteries of Villars and Mauzac near Riom in France (c. 690)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Guenninus, Bishop of Vannes in Brittany (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Namadie (Namadia), wife of St Calminius, as a widow she became a nun at Marsat in France (c. 700)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Sebaldus, probably born in England, he lived as a hermit near Vicenza in Italy, then preached with St Willibald in the Reichswald in Germany (c. 770)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Credan, eighth Abbot of Evesham Abbey (780)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Marinus, Bishop at the monastery of St Peter in Besalú in Catalonia in Spain (c. 800)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Badulf (Badour, Badolf), a monk and Abbot of Ainay, near Lyon in France (850)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Leovigild and Christopher, monks, martyred in Córdoba under Abderrahman II (852)orthodoxengland.org.uk

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • "Donskoy" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Theotokos "Of the Don"), commemoration of salvation of Moscow from the Tatar siege (1591)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Uncovering of the relics (1646) of St. Gennadius, Abbot of Kostroma (1565)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Abbess Maria (Ushakova) of Diveyevo (1904)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Archimandrite Spyridon (Efimov) (1984), disciple of St. John of Shanghai and San Franciscopravoslavie.ru

The list is August 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.

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