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March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 23

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 9.

Saints

  • Virgin-confessor Drosida (Drosis) of Antioch, daughter of Emperor Trajan, and with her five Virgin-martyrs (104-117)
  • Martyrs Kalliniki and Vasilissa of Rome (252)
  • Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra, Priest of Ancyra (362)
  • Saint Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383) (see also: May 30)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Epaphroditus, by tradition the first Bishop of Terracina in Italy (1st century)
  • Saint Paul, Bishop of Narbonne, Brittany (3rd century)
  • Saint Lea of Rome, an aristocrat in Rome who on the death of her husband entered the convent of St Marcella (384)
  • Saint Deogratius, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (457)
  • Saint Octavian and Companions, Archdeacon of the Church in Carthage in North Africa, martyred with several thousand companions under the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (484)
  • Saint Saturninus and Companions, a group of ten martyrs in North Africa.
  • Saint Trien (Trienan), a disciple of St Patrick and Abbot of Killelga in Ireland (5th century)
  • Saint Darerca of Ireland, sister of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)
  • Saint Fáilbe mac Pípáin, the eighth Abbot of Iona in Scotland (680)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker (1602) (see also: June 6 and May 10, Translation of Relics)
  • New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Dimitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava (1930)
  • New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia (Grineva) of Kiev (1941), and her priest Demetrius Ivanov (1934)

    • Other commemorations

  • "The Izborsk" Icon of the Mother of God (1657)
  • Commemoration of Maria Berushko of Brazil and eight students who died trying to save people during a fire in their school (1986)

    • References

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