Orthodox saints and name days on December 19

Name days on December 19

Vonifatios, Boniface, Aglaia, Aglaya, Aglae

Saints and feasts of December 19

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  Boniface

  Martyr, Βονιφάτιος

  The holy martyr Boniface was a servant of a wealthy Roman woman, Aglais, in the early fourth century. Sent by her to the East to bring back relics of the martyrs, he watched the sufferings of the confessors at Tarsus, was pierced with compunction for his own careless life, and openly declared himself a Christian; he was tortured and beheaded, and his own relics were carried back to Rome, where Aglais received them and thereafter lived in repentance.

  Name days: Vonifatios, Boniface

• Aglaia of Rome

  Holy Woman, Αγλαΐα η Ρωμαία

  Righteous Aglaia was a wealthy Roman noblewoman of the early fourth century. Having sent her servant Boniface to the East to bring back relics of the martyrs, she received instead his own body, for he had confessed Christ and been martyred at Tarsus.

  Name days: Aglaia, Aglaya, Aglae

• Elias, Probus and Ares

  Martyr, Ηλίας, Πρόβος και Άρης

  The holy martyrs Elias, Probus and Ares were Egyptian Christians who were arrested on their way to visit the confessors in Cilicia. Brought before the governor at Ascalon, they confessed Christ and were put to death in the early fourth century.

• Timothy and Polyeuctus

  Martyr, Τιμόθεος και Πολύευκτος

  The holy martyrs Timothy and Polyeuctus are remembered together on this day. The Synaxarion records that they confessed Christ and were perfected by fire.

• Eutychius, Thessalonica and companions

  Martyr, Ευτύχιος, Θεσσαλονίκη και οι συν αυτοίς

  The holy martyrs Eutychius and Thessalonica, together with two hundred men and seventy women, are commemorated on this day. The Synaxarion records that they confessed Christ and were perfected by the sword.

• Gregentios of Ethiopia

  Hierarch, Γρηγέντιος Αιθιοπίας

  Gregentios was a bishop of the sixth century sent to the land of the Himyarites in southern Arabia after the martyrdom of the Christians of Najran. Tradition relates that he restored the churches, gave laws to the Christian kingdom, and held a famous disputation with the Jew Herban. He reposed in peace.

• Elias of Murom

  Venerable, Ηλιού Μουρόμας

  Venerable Elias of Murom was, according to tradition, the mighty warrior of the Russian epics who at the end of his life became a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra in the twelfth century. His relics rest in the Near Caves, and he is honoured as a wonderworker.