August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Aug. 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 20

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 1 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyr Andrew Stratelates and those with him (2,593 soldiers) in Cilicia (4th century)
• Martyrs Timothy, Agapius, and Thecla of Palestine (304)
• Saint Pitirim of Perm, bishop (1456)
• Saint Theophanes of Macedonia, wonderworker at Mount Athos

[edit] Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics of Saint Gennadius of Kostroma, abbot
• Repose of Archimandrite Spyridon, disciple of Blessed Archbishop John Maximovitch (1984)