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November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
November 19 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective November 19 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Prophet Obadiah (Abdia, Abdias) (9th century BC)
Martyr Heliodorus in Pamphylia (273)
Martyr Azes of Isauria, and with him 150 soldiers (284)
Holy 12 soldier-martyrs
Martyr Barlaam of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
Martyr Agapius of Caesarea in Palaestina (306)
Martyrs Anthimus, Thallelaius, Christopher, Euphemia, and her children (see also: November 22)
Martyr Pancharius
Venerables Barlaam the monk and Ioasaph (Joasaph, Josaphat), prince of India, and his father Abenner the King (4th century)
Venerable Hilarion the Iberian of Georgia, monk, Wonderworker of Thessalonica (875) (see also: November 13)
Venerable Simon, Wonderworker of Calabria (10th century)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Martyrs Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician, martyred in Vienne in France under Marcus Aurelius (170)
Martyr Maximus, in Rome under Valerian (c. 255)
Saint Crispin, Bishop of Écija in Andalusia in Spain, beheaded under Maximian Herculeus (4th century)
Saint Anastasius II, Pope of Rome (498) (see also: September 8)
Saint Patroclus of Bourges (577)
Saint Ermenburgh (Domne Eafe), founder of the convent of Minster-in-Thanet (c. 700)
Saint Egbert, Archbishop of York (766)
Saint Medana, a holy virgin from Ireland who went to Scotland and lived in Galloway (8th century)
Saint Tuto (Totto), founder in 764 of the monastery of Ottobeuren in Bavaria in Germany (815)
Saint James of Sasseau, born in Constantinople, he came to France and was ordained in Clermont, later living as a hermit in Sasseau (c. 865)
Saint Atto, first Abbot of Tordino near Teramo in Italy (c. 1010)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Barlaam of Kiev, Abbot of the Kiev Caves (1065)
Saint Philaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (1867)
Saint Ioannicius, Schema-Archimandrite, of Glinsk Hermitage (1914)
Saint Porphyrios Bairaktaris of Kafsokalyvia (Kapsokalyvia) and Kallisa (1991) (see also: December 2 - N.S.)
New martyrs and confessors
New Hieromartyr John Vishnevsky, Priest (1920)
New Hieromartyr Porphyrius Gulevich, Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea (1937)
New Hieromartyr Ioasaph (Joasaph) Udalov, Bishop of Chistopol (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Sergius Mikhaev, Michael Dmitriev, Alexander Mishutin, John Malinovsky, Constantine Mikhailovsy, Alexander Serebrov, Ignatius Teslin, John Piramidin, Simeon Krivosheev, John Florovky, Jacob Briliantov, Demetrius Kuklin, Jacob Peredery, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Ioasaph (Joasaph) Krymzin (Krimzin), abbot, and Peter Mamontov, hieromonk, both of the Holy Transfiguration Guslitsky Monastery, Moscow (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Gennady Rebeza, Gerasim Sukhov, Michael Kvanin, Martyr Valentine Kornienko, Peter Antonov, Leonid Salkov, Thimoty Kucherov (1937)
Deacon-monk Antonius (Korzh) (1937)
Hieromonk Bartholomeus (Ratnykh) (1937)
Priest Vladimir Pischulin (1937)
Archpriest Demetrius Kiranov (1937)
Priest John Bliumovich (1937)
Archpriest Nicholas Mezentsev (1937)
Priest Timothy Izotov (1937)
New Hiero-confessor Alexis Kabaliuk, Schema-Archimandrite, of Khust, Carpatho-Russia (1947) (see also: December 2 - N.S.)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (1625) of Monk-martyr Adrian of Poshekhon, Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550)
"Consolation in Afflictions and Sorrows" Icon of the Mother of God (1863)
Repose of Elder Cleopa Ilie of Sihastria, Romania (1998) (see also: December 2 - N.S.)