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March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mar. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 24

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 5 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 10.

Saints

  • Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125) (see also: March 27 - Greek and Roman)
  • Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)
  • Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Victorian, Frumentius and Companions (484)
  • Saint Gwinear of Cornwall (5th century)
  • Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th century)
  • Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North Africa.
  • Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th century)
  • Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy, miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550)
  • Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne for twelve years (699)
  • Saint Felix of Montecassino (ca. 1000)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Nicon, abbot of the Kiev Caves (1088)
  • Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
  • Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384)
  • Saint Bassian, archbishop of Rostov (1481)
  • Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Totma, Russia (1568) (see also: January 28)
  • Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1600) (see also: March 22)
  • New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802)
  • New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820) (see also: April 5)
  • Saint Elena (Bakhteiv), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Macarius (Kvitkin), Protopresbyter of Orenburg (1931)
  • New Hieromartyr Elijah (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos (Vladimir) (1938)
  • New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklyn, and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938)
  • New Martyr James (1938)
  • Virgin-martyr Anastasia Bobkova (1938)
  • Martyr Alexis Skorobogatov (1938)
  • New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)

    • Other commemorations

  • Repose of Elder Porphyrius of Glinsk Hermitage (1868)

    • References

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