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March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mar. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 25

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 11.

Feasts

  • Forefeast of the Annunciation.

    • Saints

  • Saint Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia in Pisidia (1st century)
  • Hieromartyr Artemon, presbyter of Laodicea (284-305)
  • Martyr Timolaus and 7 Companions with him (8 Martyrs), in Caesarea Palaestina, by beheading (305)
  • Venerable Zachariah the Recluse, of Egypt (4th century)
  • Venerable Martin of the Thebaid, monk.
  • Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros, ascetic.
  • Saint Thomas, Abbot of the monastery of St. Euthymius (542)
  • Venerable Jacob of Catania (James the Confessor), Bishop of Catania (c. 730)
  • Saint Severus of Catania, Bishop of Catania (c. 812)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Flavius Latinus of Brescia, third Bishop of Brescia in Italy (84-115)
  • Martyrs Romulus and Secundus, brothers, in Mauritania (Barbary), who suffered for the faith of Christ.
  • Saint Pigmenius, a priest in Rome thrown into the Tiber under Julian the Apostate (362)
  • Saint Domangard (Donard), patron of Maghera in Co. Down in Ireland, who lived as a hermit on the mountain now called Slieve-Donard after him (c. 500)
  • Saint Macartan (Macartin, Maccarthen, Mac Cairthinn of Clogher), an early disciple and companion of St Patrick of Ireland, who consecrated him Bishop of Clogher (c. 505)
  • Saint Cairlon (Caorlan, Carláen), an abbot in Ireland who became Archbishop of Cashel (6th century)
  • Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra (of Holy Island on Lough Derg), Bishop-Abbot of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe (653) (see also: March 25)
  • Saint Hildelith, Abbess of Barking Abbey (c. 712)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Venerable Zachariah, Faster of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
  • Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan (1552)
  • New Hieromartyr Parthenius III, Patriarch of Constantinople (1657)
  • Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947) (see also: March 25; April 7 - Greek; and the fifth Sunday of Great Lent)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pankin, Priest, of Chimkent (1920)

    • Other commemorations

  • Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "The Clouded Mountain" (also "the Uncut Mount" or "Smoky Mountain"), in Tver.
  • Commemoration of the miracle at the Kiev Caves Lavra.

    • References

    March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
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