March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them in Rome :
• Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Quintus, Quintilla, Quartilla, Mark and Companions, martyrs venerated in Sorrento near Naples in Italy.
• Saints Apollonius and Leontius, by tradition early Bishops of Braga in Portugal
• Saint Auxilius, a companion of St Patrick, became Bishop of Killossey in Ireland
• Saint John the Syrian of Pinna, a Syrian monk who settled in Pinna near Spoleto in Italy, became abbot of a large monastic colony there for forty-four years.
• Saint Leontius of Saintes, Bishop of Saintes
• Saints Landoald and Amantius, a priest and deacon who helped enlighten what is now Belgium and north-eastern France, founded the church at Wintershoven
• Saint Adrian, disciple of St Landoald, murdered while begging alms for his monastery near Maastricht in the Netherlands
• Saint Lactan, born near Cork in Ireland, St Comgall entrusted him to found a monastery at Achadh-Ur, now Freshford, in Kilkenny
• Saint Alcmund, martyred in Shropshire
• Saint Gemus, a monk, probably at Moyenmoutier in Alsace, now in France, his relics were enshrined at Hürbach.

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Righteous Mary, wife of Vsevelod III
• Saint Bassa, nun, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery
• Venerable Innocent of Komel the Wonderworker, in Vologda, disciple of St. Nilus of Sora.
• New Martyr Demetrius, at Constantinople
• Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk, descendant of the Sovereigns of the Kyivan-Rus'
• New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna
• Saint Symeon, Archimandrite of Dajbabe Monastery, Montenegro

  New martyrs and confessors

• Saint John Blinov, Confessor
• New Martyr Matrona Alexeeva

  Other commemorations

• Smolensk "Umileniye" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
• Icon of the Mother of God of Lubyatov

  Gallery