Holidays and observances
Holidays and observances on May 19
18 holidays and special days are celebrated on May 19 around the world.
- 18observances
- 57events
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day: Calocerus (Eastern Orthodox Church)Saint Calocerus was a 2nd-century Christian martyr. His alleged "acts" belong to a much later period.
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Crispin of ViterboCrispino da Viterbo was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Fioretti was an ardent devotee of the Mother of God and was consecrated to her protection in 1674 and he even made a small altar dedicated to her when he
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Dunstan (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church; commemoration, Anglicanism)Dunstan was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church.
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Ivo of KermartinIvo of Kermartin, TOSF, also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives, was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. He is the patron of Brittany, lawyers, and abandoned children. His feast day is 19 May. Po
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Joaquina Vedruna de MasJoaquima de Vedruna Vidal de Mas, CCV was a Spanish Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.
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Maria Bernarda BütlerMaría Bernarda Bütler, born Verena Bütler, was a Swiss religious sister. She founded the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Sinners and served in the missions in Ecuador and Colombia. Bütler worked for the care of the poor in these places until her 
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Peter CelestinePope Celestine V, born Pietro Angelerio, also known as Pietro da Morrone, Peter of Morrone, and Peter Celestine, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States for five months from 5 July to 13 December 1294, when he abdicated. He was also a mon
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Pudentiana (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)Pudentiana was a Christian virgin and martyr of the second century who refused to worship the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities. As the eldest daughter of the Roman senator Pudens, she is sometimes locally known as "Potentiana" and i
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Blessed Umiliana de' CerchiBeatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on behalf of individuals who pray in their name, permitting a restricted, local for
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May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)May 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 20
Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)The Greek genocide, which included the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the indigenous Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia because of their religion and ethnicity, which was carried out between 1912 and 1923. This period extended acros
Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)The Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on 19 May to commemorate Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun on 19 May 1919, which is regarded in the official historiography as the beginning of the Turkish War 
Remembrance Day (Sri Lanka)Remembrance Day, also known as National War Heroes Commemoration Day, is a memorial day observed in Sri Lanka since the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which is observed to commemorate the war heroes which fought in the war and the civilians who were killed i
Hồ Chí Minh's Birthday (Vietnam)Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. He served as its first president from 1946 until his death in 1969 an
Malcolm X Day (United States of America)Malcolm X Day is an American holiday in honor of Malcolm X that is celebrated on either May 19 or the third Friday of May. The commemoration of the civil rights leader has been proposed as an official state holiday in the U.S. state of Illinois in 2015 and Mis- National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)HIV.gov, formerly known as AIDS.gov, is an internet portal for all United States federal domestic HIV and AIDS resources and information. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched AIDS.gov. The site contains
Hepatitis Testing Day (United States)Hepatitis Testing Day is May 19 in the United States.
Mother's Day (Kyrgyzstan)Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on different days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March or May. It comp
Frequently asked questions
What is celebrated on May 19?
18 observances are celebrated on May 19 around the world: Christian feast day: Calocerus (Eastern Orthodox Church), Christian feast day: Crispin of Viterbo, Christian feast day: Dunstan (Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church; commemoration, Anglicanism), Christian feast day: Ivo of Kermartin, Christian feast day: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Christian feast day: Maria Bernarda Bütler. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
What happened on May 19?
57 documented historical events happened on May 19, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Gregory II began his pontificate; his conflict with Byzantine emperor Leo III eventually led to the establishment of the temporal power of the pope. On the same day, in another year: Anglo-Spanish War: English forces invaded Jamaica, then administered by Spain as the Colony of Santiago, and captured it a week later. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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