October 18 Events Pre-1600 * 33 – Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation. * 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philos ...

Eastern Orthodox liturgical 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 rul ...

October 20 Events Pre-1600 *1568 – The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent. * 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the re ...

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 1 by Orthodox Churches on the

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 ...

. For October 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on

October 6 Events Pre-1600 * 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army of the mid-Republic. * 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia. *A ...

Saints

* ''Prophet

Joel Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" and may refer to: * Joel (given name), origin of the name including a list of people with the first name. * Joel (surname), a surname * Joel (footballer, born 1904), Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Brazili ...

'' (800 BC)October 19 / November 1
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής.
19 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). * Saint Mnason of

Tamassos Tamassos (Greek: Ταμασσός) or Tamasos (Greek: Τἀμασος) – names Latinized as Tamassus or Tamasus – was a city-kingdom in ancient Cyprus, one of the ten kingdoms of Cyprus. It was situated in the great central plain of the isl ...

, Cyprus, the early disciple, mentioned in Acts 21:15-16
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'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. (''see also: ''

'' '') * Hieromartyr Felix the Presbyter and Eusebius the Deacon, by the sword. * ''Martyrs Varus (Ouarus)'' ''and six (seven) others with him,'' ''in Egypt'' (c. 307)19 октября по старому стилю / 1 ноября по новому стилю
. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год. (see also: ''

February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. *1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...

'') * Blessed

Cleopatra Cleopatra VII Philopator ( grc-gre, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ}, "Cleopatra the father-beloved"; 69 BC10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler.She was also a ...

(327) and her son John (320), in Egypt. * Hieromartyr

Sadoc Zadok (or Zadok HaKohen, also spelled Ṣadok, Ṣadoc, Zadoq, Tzadok, or Tsadoq; he, צָדוֹק הַכֹּהֵן, meaning "Righteous, Justified") was a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant from Eleazar the son of Aaron (). ...

(Sadoth), Bishop of

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, and 120 martyrs with him (342) * Saint Leontius the Philosopher, of St. Sabbas Monastery (624) * Saint Prochorus of Pechenga (Pchinja), Abbot, in the Vranski Desert on the Pchinja river (10th century)November 1 / October 19
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Ptolemy and Lucius, martyrs in Rome under

Antoninus Pius Antoninus Pius (Latin: ''Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius''; 19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. Born into a senatoria ...

(c. 165)October 19
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint Altinus (''Attinus''), founder of the churches of

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Chartres Chartres () is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 170,763 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Chartres (as d ...

in France and perhaps a martyr (4th century) * Saint Eusterius, fourth

Bishop of Salerno The Archdiocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno ( la, Archidioecesis Salernitana-Campaniensis-Acernensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Campania, southern Italy, created in 1986. The historic Archdiocese of Salerno was in existence f ...

in Italy (5th century) * Saint Lupus of Soissons, a nephew of St Remi of Rheims who became

Bishop of Soissons The Roman Catholic Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin (Latin: ''Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Ch ...

(c. 540) * Saint

Veranus of Cavaillon Saint Veranus of Cavaillon (french: Véran, ''Vrain''; it, Verano) (died c. 590) was a French saint, with a cultus in Italy. He was born at Vaucluse and was bishop of Cavaillon. Gregory of Tours writes of miracles performed by Veranus, includi ...

Bishop of Cavaillon The former French diocese of Cavaillon (''Lat.'' dioecesis Caballicensis) existed until the French Revolution as a diocese of the Comtat Venaissin, a fief of the Church of Rome. It was a member of the ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropol ...

(590) * Saint Ethbin, monk, then hermit near Kildare, Ireland (c. 600) * Saint Aquilinus of Évreux,

Bishop of Evreux A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

, Confessor (695) * Saint Desiderius, a monk at Lonrey and a disciple of St Sigiranus, he became a hermit in La Brenne near Bourges, France (c. 705) * Saint Theofrid (''Theofroy, Chaifre''), Abbot of Carmery-en-Velay (Monastier-Saint-Chaffre), martyred by invading Saracens (728) * ''Saint Frideswide of Oxford, Royal Abbess,

patron saint A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or perso ...

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

'' (c. 735) * Saint Laura of Cordoba, a nun at Santa María de Cuteclara de Córdoba, martyred by the Moors by being thrown into a cauldron of molten lead (864) * Saint

Eadnoth the Younger Eadnoth the Younger or Eadnoth I was a medieval monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Ramsey and Bishop of Dorchester. From a prominent family of priests in the Fens, he was related to Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, Archbishop of York and found ...

(''Ednoth, Eadnot''), successively

Abbot of Ramsey Ramsey Abbey was a Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine abbey in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England. It was founded about AD 969 and Dissolution of the Monasteries, dissolved in 1539. The site ...

and

Bishop of Dorchester The modern Bishop Suffragan of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford, usually contracted to Bishop of Dorchester, is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The ...

(1016)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* New Monk-martyr Nicholas Dvali of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

(1314) (''see also: ''

February 12 Events Pre-1600 *1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. *1429 – English forces under ...

'' '') * Saint Gabriel, Archimandrite (Abbot) of St. Elias Skete,

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 ...

(1901) * ''Righteous

John of Kronstadt John of Kronstadt or John Iliytch Sergieff ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform russian: Иоа́нн Кроншта́дтский; 1829 – ) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Churc ...

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 ...

'' (1908) (''see also

December 20 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian. * 1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England a ...

'') * Saint Anthony (Abashidze),

Schema The word schema comes from the Greek word ('), which means ''shape'', or more generally, ''plan''. The plural is ('). In English, both ''schemas'' and ''schemata'' are used as plural forms. Schema may refer to: Science and technology * SCHEMA ...

-Archbishop, of the Kyiv Caves Lavra (1942)

New Martys and Confessors

* New Hieromartyr Alexis Stavrovsky, Priest, of

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(1918) * New Hieromartyr Sergius Pokrovsky, Priest (1937)1 ноября (19 октября)
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

Other commemorations

* ''First translation (1187) of the

relic In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...

s of Venerable

John of Rila Saint John of Rila, a.k.a. Ivan of Rila (Bulgarian: Свети преподобни Йоан Рилски Чудотворец, Svеti prеpodobni Yoan Rilski Chudotvorеts; English: Saint (monk) John of Rila the Wondermaker) (876 – c. 946) was ...

, founder of Rila Monastery in Bulgaria'' (946) * Synaxis of the icon of "Panagia Vasilissa" ("Panagia the Queen"), in

Mouzaki Mouzaki ( el, Μουζάκι) is a town and a municipality in the northwestern part of the Karditsa regional unit, Greece. Mouzaki is located on the southwestern edge of the Thessalian plain, where the river Pamisos descends from the Agrafa moun ...

Karditsa Karditsa ( el, Καρδίτσα ) is a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The city of Karditsa is the capital of Karditsa regional unit of region of Thessaly. Inhabitation is attested from 9000 BC. Karditsa ls linked with GR-30, the ...

, Greece.
Σύναξη της Παναγίας της Βασίλισσας στο Μουζάκι Καρδίτσας
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Icon gallery

File:Joel (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Prophet

. File:Varus, and with him six monk-martyrs (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Martyrs Varus and six others with him, in Egypt. File:Sadoc (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 martyrs with him (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Martyr Sadoc (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 120 martyrs with him. File:Frideswide-2.jpg, St. Frideswide of Oxford (''Stained-glass window in

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

''). File:Ioann of Kronstadt (icon).jpg, Righteous

. File:Ivan Rilski - fresco from church in rila monastery-bulgaria.JPG, Venerable

Notes

References

Sources

October 19 / November 1
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
November 1 / October 19
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
October 19
OCA - The Lives of the Saints. * 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. 78. *

'' Orthodoxy in China.

Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * '' The Roman Martyrology.'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 322–323. * Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 503–507. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
19 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
19 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). *
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'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *

Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год. {{DEFAULTSORT:October 19 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) October in the Eastern Orthodox calendar