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March 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mar. 29 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 31

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 12 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 30th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 17.

Saints

  • Prophet Joad (10th century BC) (III Kings 13:11), who dwelt in Bethel.
  • Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, and Epaphroditus, of the Seventy (1st century) (see also: December 8 and January 4)
  • Saint Eubula, mother of St. Panteleimon (304)
  • Venerable John the Hermit of Cilicia (4th century)
  • Saint John II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (5th century)
  • Venerable John the Silent (John Hesychastes), Bishop of Colonia (Taxara) in Armenia, and later a monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (558) (see also: December 3)
  • Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent (615)
  • Venerable Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662) (see also: January 21)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Quirinus, the jailer of Pope Alexander I, martyr (c. 117)
  • Saint Regulus (Rieul), by tradition a Greek, he is honoured as the first Bishop of Senlis in France (c. 260)
  • Saint Mamertinus of Auxerre, a monk and then Abbot of Sts Cosmas and Damian in Auxerre in France (c. 462)
  • Saint Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick in Ireland (6th century)
  • Saint Pastor, Bishop of Orleans in France (6th century)
  • Saint Tola of Clonard, Abbot and Bishop of Disert Tola in Meath in Ireland (c. 733)
  • Saint Patto (Pacificus), Bishop of Werden in Germany (c. 788)
  • Saint Clinius, a Greek monk of Monte Cassino, he became Abbot of St Peter's near Pontecorvo, where his relics were venerated.
  • Saint Osburga of Coventry, Abbess and Virgin (c. 1015)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • New Hieromartyr Zachariah, Metropolitan of Corinth (1684)
  • Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk (1771)

    • Other commemorations

  • The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth (1st century)
  • Translation of the relicts of the Martyr-King Edmund of East Anglia.
  • Repose of Blessed Matrona (Mylnikova) the Barefoot, of St. Petersburg, Fool for Christ (1911)

    • References

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