July 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# July 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 20

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 1 by Old Calendar.

For July 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 6.

## Saints

* Venerable Abba Diocles of the Thebaid (4th century)
* Venerable Macrina the Younger, sister of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa (380)
* Venerable Dius of Antioch, Abbot, Wonderworker (c. 430)
* The Venerable 4 (or 40) fellow ascetics.
* Saint Gregory of Panedus, Bishop of Panedus, New Confessor for the holy icons’ sake.
* Venerable Theodore the Sabbaite, Archbishop of Edessa in Mesopotamia (848) (see also: July 9)
* Venerable Michael, ascetic at the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas and the nephew of Venerable Theodore the Sabbaite the Bishop of Edessa.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Martin of Trier, tenth Bishop of Trier in Germany and possibly a martyr (c. 210)
* Saints Justa and Rufina of Seville, two sisters, potters by trade, martyred under Diocletian and venerated as the main patron-saints of Seville (287)
* Saint Arsenius the Great of Scetis, an anchorite in Egypt and one of the most highly regarded Desert Fathers (c. 449) (see also: May 8)
* Saint Felix of Verona (Felicinus, Felice), Bishop of Verona in Italy, venerated from ancient times as a saint.
* Saint Symmachus, Pope of Rome (514)
* Saint Ambrose Autpertus, a Frankish Benedictine abbot (c. 778)
* Saint Jerome of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy (787)
* Saint Aurea of Córdoba (Aura), a nun at Santa María de Cuteclara de Córdoba, martyred by beheading (856)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Blessed Romanus of Ryazan, Prince of Ryazan (1270)
* Venerable Paisius of Kiev Far Caves (14th century)
* Blessed King Stefan Lazarević of Serbia (1427), and his mother St. Milica of Serbia (Eugenia in schema) (1405)
* Saint Sophronius (Smirnov), Archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1921)

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Umileniye" ("of Tender Feeling") of Diveyevo Convent (1885) (see also: July 28)
* Uncovering of the relics (1903) of Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, Wonderworker (1833)
* Commemoration of the miracle (1944) of Hieromartyr Charalampus (202), who saved the residents of Erana-Filiatra in Messinia from certain death.
* Synaxis of the Saints of Kursk.
* Repose of Hiero-Schemamonk Anthony of Valaam (1862)
* Repose of Blessed Abbot Nilus, of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery (1870)
* Repose of Elder John, of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery (1903)
* Repose of Archimandrite Nektary (Chernobyl) of Jerusalem (2000)

## Icon gallery

* Venerable Macrina the Younger.
* Sts. Justa and Rufina of Seville.
* St. Arsenius the Great of Scetis.
* St. Symmachus, Pope of Rome.
* St. Roman of Ryazan.
* Blessed King Stefan Lazarević of Serbia.
* St. Milica of Serbia (Eugenia in schema).
* Venerable Seraphim of Sarov.
* Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia in Asia Minor.
