May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
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Eastern Orthodox Church calendar
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rule ...
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May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
Old Calendar
Old Calendarists (Greek language, Greek: ''palaioimerologitai'' or ''palaioimerologites''), also known as Old Feasters (''palaioeortologitai''), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; ), are traditionalist groups of Easte ...
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For May 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on
May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanis ...
.
Saints
* Hieromartyrs Patricius (''Patrick''), Bishop of Prusa, and with him the Presbyters Acacius, Menander, and Polyenos (c. 100May 19/June 1 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). or c. 362June 1 / May 19 HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).)
* Martyrs Calocerus and Parthenius, brothers (250)May 19 The Roman Martyrology. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* Martyr Philoterus of Nicomedia (303)
* Martyr Acoluthus of the
Thebaid
The Thebaid or Thebais ( grc-gre, Θηβαΐς, ''Thēbaïs'') was a region in ancient Egypt, comprising the 13 southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan.
Pharaonic history
The Thebaid acquired its name from its proximity to ...
(303)
* Martyr
Cyriaca
Cyriaca, also known as Dominica, was a Roman widow, and patroness to St. Lawrence, and eventually suffered martyrdom.
Life
Cyriaca was a wealthy Roman widow who sheltered persecuted Christians. St. Lawrence used her home in Rome to give food to th ...
(''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
Pudentiana is a traditional Christian saint and martyress of the 2nd century who refused to worship the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities. She is sometimes locally known as Potentiana and is often coupled with her sis ...
(''Potentiana''), daughter of Saint Pudens the senator (160)
* Saint Cyril of Trier,
Bishop of Trier
The Diocese of Trier, in English historically also known as ''Treves'' (IPA "tɾivz") from French ''Trèves'', is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic church in Germany.
* Saint Adolphus (''Hadulf''), ascetic of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast, in
Arras
Arras ( , ; pcd, Aro; historical nl, Atrecht ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department, which forms part of the regions of France, region of Hauts-de-France; before the regions of France#Reform and mergers of ...
, and later
Bishop of Arras Cambrai This is a List of bishops and archbishops of Cambrai, that is, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai.
Bishops
For the first bishops of Arras and Cambrai, who resided at the former place, see Arras. On the death of Saint Vedulphus (545 ...
in the north of France (728)
* Saint
Dunstan
Saint Dunstan (c. 909 – 19 May 988) was an English bishop. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restor ...
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...
(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
Saint Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy ( rus, Дми́трий Ива́нович Донско́й, Dmítriy Ivanovich Donskóy, also known as Dimitrii or Demetrius), or Dmitry of the Don, sometimes referred to simply as Dmitry (12 October 1350 – 1 ...
, Great Prince of Moscow (1389)19 мая (ст.ст.) 1 июня 2013 (нов. ст.) Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
* Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from
Ravanica
The Ravanica Monastery ( sr, / ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Kučaj mountains near Senje, a village in Ćuprija municipality in Central Serbia. It was built in 1375–1377 as an endowment of prince Lazar of Serbia, who is buried t ...
) (14th century):
:* Romulus, Romanus, Nestor, Sisoes, Zosimas, Gregory, Nicodemus, and Cyril, the Sinaites. - disciples of
Gregory of Sinai
Gregory of Sinai, or in Serbian and Bulgarian Grigorije Sinaita ( 1260s – 27 November 1346), was a Greek Christian monk and writer from Smyrna. He was instrumental in the emergence of hesychasm on Mount Athos in the early 14th century.
Biograph ...
(
Mount Athos
Mount Athos (; el, Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the penins ...
).
* Saint Cornelius of Paleostrov, Abbot (1420)
* Saint John (''Ignatius''), Prince of
Uglich
Uglich ( rus, У́глич, p=ˈuɡlʲɪtɕ) is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River. Population:
History
The city was first documented in 1148 as ''Ugliche Pole'' (''Corner Field''). The town's name is though ...
, tonsured as Ignatius in Vologda (1522)
* Venerable Cornelius of Komel (
Vologda
Vologda ( rus, Вологда, p=ˈvoləɡdə) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda (river), Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. ...
), Abbot and
Wonderworker
Thaumaturgy is the purported capability of a magician to work magic or other paranormal events or a saint to perform miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking.
A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a "thaumaturge", "thauma ...
(1537)
* Saint Sergius of Shukhtov (''Shukhtom''), monk (1609)
New martyrs and confessors
* Hieromartyr Matthew Voznesensky (1919)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.37.
* Hieromartyr Innocent (Letayev), Archbishop of
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.
* Hieromartyr Victor Karakulin (1937)
* Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagaliuk), Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansk (1938), (''see also
June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
'') 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
Sloboda Ukraine (literally: Borderland of free frontier guards; uk, Слобідська Україна, Slobidska Ukraina), or Slobozhanshchyna ( uk, Слобожанщина, Slobozhanshchyna, ), is a historical region, now located in Northeas ...
(Slobodskaya) Ukraine (1937,1938,1940,1941)
Other commemorations
* Entrance into Georgia (323) of Saint Nina (''Nino''),
Equal-to-the-Apostles
Equal-to-apostles or equal-to-the-apostles (; la, aequalis apostolis; ar, معادل الرسل, ''muʿādil ar-rusul''; ka, მოციქულთასწორი, tr; ro, întocmai cu Apostolii; russian: равноапостольный, ...
(335)
* Translation of the sacred relics of Saints Julius the Presbyter (401) and Julianus (''Giuliano'') the Deacon (391)
* Repose of Schemamonk Cyriacus of
Valaam
Valaam ( Russian: Валаам or Валаамский архипелаг, also known by the Finnish name Valamo) is an archipelago in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, lying within the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. The total area ...
(1798)
* Repose of Righteous Nicholas Rynin of Vologda (1837)
* Commemoration of the
ascetics
Asceticism (; from the el, ἄσκησις, áskesis, exercise', 'training) is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. Ascetics may withdraw from the world for their p ...
of ''St. Anthony of Syadem Monastery'': Elias (also of Valaam), Theophanes, and Dionysius.
*
Synaxis
{{For, the moth genus, Synaxis (moth)
A synaxis ( el, σύναξις "gathering"; Slavonic: собор, ''sobor'') is a liturgical assembly in Eastern Christianity (the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the ...
of Hieromartyrs of
Kharkov
Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.
May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanis ...
'')
Icon gallery
File:Saint Pudens.jpg, St. Pudens.
File:Pudentiana, detail of a mosaic in Santa Pudenziana.jpg, St.
Pudentiana
Pudentiana is a traditional Christian saint and martyress of the 2nd century who refused to worship the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities. She is sometimes locally known as Potentiana and is often coupled with her sis ...
.
File:Apsis mosaic, Santa Pudenziana, Rome photo Sixtus enhanced TTaylor.jpg, Apse mosaic from the Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome.
File:Saint Dunstan.jpg, St.
Dunstan
Saint Dunstan (c. 909 – 19 May 988) was an English bishop. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restor ...
.
File:Dmitri Donskoy.jpg, St.
Dmitry Donskoy
Saint Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy ( rus, Дми́трий Ива́нович Донско́й, Dmítriy Ivanovich Donskóy, also known as Dimitrii or Demetrius), or Dmitry of the Don, sometimes referred to simply as Dmitry (12 October 1350 – 1 ...
.
File:Svonufrij.jpg, St. Onuphrius (Gagaliuk), Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansk.
File:Azize nino.jpg, St. Nino, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
File:JuliusofNovara.jpg, St.
Julius of Novara
Julius of Novara ( it, Giulio di Orta), also Julius of Aegina (died 401 AD) was a missionary priest to northern Italy.
His cult is centred at Lake Orta in the Novarese highlands, and in particular on the island which has been named for him since ...
.
Notes
References
Sources
May 19/June 1 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
June 1 / May 19 HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
* Dr. Alexander Roman. '' Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
The Roman Martyrology.
Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes: 19 ΜΑΪΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
* Συναξαριστής. 19 Μαΐου '' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
Russian Sources
* Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
* 19 мая (ст.ст.) 1 июня 2013 (нов. ст.) Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
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