Daily Calendar - June 19

The 170th day of the year, 195 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Petro-Pauline Fast

Venerable Besarion of Egypt, the Wonderworker (IV-V); Venerable Hilarion the Younger (845); Venerable Virgin Martyrs: Archelais, Theklas and Sosanas (293); Martyrs: Mamelkhtas and Zinaidas.

Venerable Father Besarion the Wonderworker showed great piety even in his youth. Filled with a desire to get to know the monastic life better, he traveled to the holy places. He was also in Jerusalem. Returning home, he was tonsured a monk.

God gave the saint the gift of miracles. The saint peacefully gave up his spirit to the Lord in deep old age.

The parents of the venerable Father Hilarion the New were true Christians. At the age of 20, he was tonsured a monk in the monastery of Asikia near Byzantium, from where he moved to the monastery of Dalmatia. There he became a disciple of the venerable Father Gregory of the Decapolis.

During the reign of the iconoclast Emperor Theophilus, the venerable Father Hilarion was imprisoned, brutally beaten, and exiled to the island of Afisia.

After the death of Theophilus, Saint Hilarion returned to the monastery of Dalmatia, accepted the abbotship, and died peacefully there in 845.

The holy virgin martyrs Archelaus, Thecla, and Susanna perished during the persecution of Christians initiated by the Emperor Diocletian.

Born:

1623 _ Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. Died in 1662.

1834 _ Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter. Died 1892.

1887 _ Cyril Hinshelwood, English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Died 1967.

1924 _ Vakhtang Gurgenidze, historian, writer. Died 1998.

1945 _ Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (Burma) opposition leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Died:

1806 _ Kitagawa Utamaro, prominent Japanese painter and master of color engraving.

1953 _ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, husband and wife, executed in the United States for espionage for the Soviet Union.

Events:

1862 _ Slavery was abolished throughout the United States.

1947 _ American pilot Albert Boyd was the first to fly at a speed of 1000 km/h in an F-80.

1965 _ Algerian President Ben Bella was shot down.

Memorable days:

USA _ Emancipation Day.

Argentina _ Flag Day.

Kuwait _ Independence Day.

Trinidad and Tobago — Labor Day.

Algeria — Revolution Day

Texas _ Emancipation Day