March 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Nov 27, 2023

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Mar. 16 – Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 18

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 17, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 4.

Saints

Saint Lazarus the Righteous (Lazarus the Just), the friend of Christ (1st century)

Martyr Marinus of Caesarea, soldier, at Caesarea in Palestine (262)

Saint Ambrose, Deacon, disciple of St. Didymus the Blind of Alexandria (400)

Venerable Alexios the Man of God, in Rome (411) (see also July 17 - in the Western Church)

Monk-martyr Paul of Crete, defender of icons, burned alive under Constantine V Copronymus (767)

Monk-martyr Paul of Cyprus, burned alive by iconoclasts

Venerable Theosterictus the Confessor, Abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (826)

Martyrs Alexander and Theodore, early martyrs in Rome.

Venerable Patrick, Bishop of Armagh and the Enlightener of Ireland (461)

Saint Llinio of Llandinam, Abbot and Founder of Llandinam, Powys, Wales (520)

Saint Agricola (Agrele, Aregle), ascetic and Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône in France (580)

Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, Abbess of Nivelles, patroness of travellers (659)

Saint Beccan of Rhum (677)

Saint Withburga, Princess of East Anglia, hermitess whose holy well is at East Dereham (c. 743) (see also July 8)

Venerable Macarius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Kalyazin (1483)

Venerable Hieromartyr Gabriel the Lesser, of Gareji, Georgia (1802)

Hieromartyr Theodoulos the Sinaite (1822)

Saint Gurias, Archbishop of Tauria and Simferopol (1882)

New Hieromartyr Alexander Polivanov of Krasnoyarsk, Priest (1919)

New Hieromartyr Victor Kiranov of Berdyansk, Protopresbyter of Simferopol-Crimea (1942)

Commemoration of the Great Earthquake of 790 AD, under Emperor Constantine VI.

Repose of Lulach, last Orthodox King of Scotland (1058)

Repose of Archbishop Tikhon (Troitsky) of San Francisco (1963)

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