July 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 21
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 2 by Old Calendar.
For July 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 7.
Saints
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Rheticus (Rheticius, Rhetice), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Autun in France (334)
- Saint Aurelius of Carthage, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (429)
- Saint Severa of St Gemma, Abbess of St Gemma (later Sainte-Sevère) in Villeneuve near Bourges, the sister of St Modoald, Bishop of Trier (c. 680)
- Saint Wulmar of Boulogne (Ulmar, Ulmer, Vilmarus, Volmar), founder of the monastery of Samer near Boulogne, later called Saint-Vulmaire (689)
- Saint Severa of Oehren, Abbess of Oehren near Trier in Germany (c. 750)
- Saint Ansegisus, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France at the age of eighteen, he later restored several monasteries (c. 833)
- Hieromartyr Paul the Deacon of Córdoba (851)
- Saint Ethelwida (Ealhswith, Elswith), widow of King Alfred the Great (902)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Constantine Slovtsov, Priests (1918)
- New Martyrs Lydia, with soldiers Alexei and Cyril, near Ufa (1928)
- New Hieromartyrs at Voronezh (1930):
* Archimandrite Tikhon (Krechkov);
* Hieromonks George (Pozharov) and Cosmas (Vyaznikov);
* Priests John Steblin-Kamensky, Sergius Gortinsky, Theodore Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and George Nikitin;
* Martyrs Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov.
- New Hieromartyr Alexis Znamensky, Priest (1938)
- New Hieromartyr Theodore Abrosimov (1941)
- New Martyrs of Paris:
* Archpriest Alexis Medvedkov, of Ugine, France (1934);
* Elias Fondaminsky (1942);
* Priest Demetrius Klepinine (1944);
* George Skobtsov (1944); and
* Nun Maria (Skobtsova) (1945)
Other commemorations
- Icon of the Mother of God "Chukhloma" from Galich (Galich-Chukhlomsk - "Tenderness") (1350) <small>(see also: May 28, August 15)</small>
- Icon of the Mother of God "Orshansk" (1631) <small>(see also: September 5)</small>
- Icon of the Mother of God "Abalatsk" ("Sign") (1637) <small>(see also: November 27)</small>
- Uncovering of the relics (1649) of Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest, Hegumen of the Monastery of St Simeon Stylites in Brest (1648)
- Repose of Priest Valentine Amphiteatrov of Moscow (1908)
- Repose of Schema-nun Sarah of Borodino (1908)
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Notes
References
Sources
- July 20/August 2. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- August 2 / July 20. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- July 20. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
- July 20. The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
- 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. 53.
- The Twentieth Day of the Month of July. Orthodoxy in China.
- July 20. 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. 214âÂÂ215.
- 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. 348âÂÂ349.
Greek Sources
Russian Sources