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March 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mar. 14 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 16

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 28 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 2.

Saints

  • Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first bishop of Britain (1st century)
  • Martyrs Agapius, and with him seven martyrs:
  • Publius (Pauplios); Timolaus; Romulus; two named Dionysius; and two named Alexander; at Caesarea in Palestine (303)
  • Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (270-275)
  • Martyr Nicander of Egypt (305)
  • Saint Hebarestes, steward of a church located in Jerusalem.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Martyr Mancius (5th or 6th century)
  • Saint Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy (c. 555)
  • Saint Probus of Rieti, Bishop of Rieti in central Italy (c. 571)
  • Saint Zachariah, Pope of Rome (752)
  • Saint Leocritia (Lucretia), a holy virgin in Cordoba in Spain (859)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Nicander, monk, of Gorodetsk (Nizhni-Novgorod) (1603)
  • New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792)
  • Hieromartyr Parthenios, Deacon, at Didymoteicho (1805)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Alexis Vinogradov, Protopresbyter of Tver (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest of Chimkent (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Michael Bogoslovsk, Protopresbyter of Simferopol-Crimea (1940)

    • Other commemorations

  • Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the earthquake of 1938.

    • References

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