Trisha Shetty (Editor)

March 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
March 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 21

Contents

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 7.

Saints

  • Righteous Abel, first martyr in the history of mankind.
  • Martyrs Photina (Fatima, Svetlana), the Samaritan woman, martyred under Nero (66), together with:
  • her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca (Kyriake);
  • her sons Victor (or Photinus) and Joses (Joseph);
  • Sebastian the Duke;
  • the officer Anatolius; and
  • Theoclitus, the former sorcerer.
  • Seven Virgin-martyrs of Amisus (Samsun): Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia (c. 303-305)
  • Martyr Akyla the Eparch, by the sword.
  • Martyr Emmanuel, by the sword.
  • Martyr Rodian, by the sword.
  • Martyr Lollian the Elder.
  • Hieromartyr Tadros, Bishop of Edessa, at Jerusalem (691)
  • Martyr Michael the Sabbaite, at Jerusalem (691)
  • Martyr Archil II (Archilios II), king of Georgia (744) (see also: June 21)
  • The Venerable Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St. Sabbas:
  • Saints John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796)
  • Saint Nicetas the Confessor, Bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Urbitius, Bishop of Metz in the east of France (c. 420)
  • Saint Tertricus, Bishop of Langres and uncle of St Gregory of Tours (572)
  • Saint Martin of Braga in Iberia (580)
  • Venerable Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop (687)
  • Saint Herbert of Derwentwater, an Anglo-Saxon priest and friend of St Cuthbert, who lived as a hermit on St Herbert's Island (687)
  • Saint Wulfram of Sens, missionary, Bishop of Sens (703)
  • Saint Benignus, a monk and Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey (725)
  • Saint Remigius von Straßburg, a noble, became Abbot of Münster near Colmar in France and in 776 Bishop of Strasbourg (783)
  • Saint William of Peñacorada, monk at the monastery of Satagún in León in Spain (c. 1042)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Hieromartyr Euphrosynus of Blue-Jay Lake (Valaam, Novgorod Republic) (1612)
  • New Martyr Myron of Mega Castro (Heraklion) in Crete (1793)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolov, Deacon (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Holz, priest of Novosiolki (Chełm and Podlasie, Poland) (1944)

    • References

    March 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA