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March 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mar. 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 9

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 23 (February 24 on leap years).

Saints

  • Apostle Hermas of the Seventy, Bishop in Philipopoulis (1st century)
  • Martyr Dius (Dion, Dionos), by the sword.
  • Martyrs Quinctilian and Capatolinus, at Nicomedia.
  • Venerable Dometius, reposed in peace (363)
  • Hieromartyr Theodoretus, priest, of Antioch (361-363)
  • Venerable Paul the Confessor, bishop of Plousias in Bithynia (c. 840) (see also March 7)
  • Saint Theophylactus, Bishop of Nicomedia (842)
  • Saint Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia. (see also May 7)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Pontius of Carthage, a Deacon of the Church of Carthage (c. 260)
  • Hieromartyr Cyril, a Bishop, with martyrs Rogatus, Felix, another Rogatus, Beata, Herenia, Felicitas, Urban, Silvanus and Mamillus, martyrs in North Africa.
  • Saint Provinus, Bishop of Como in Italy (c. 420)
  • Saint Beoadh (Beatus), Bishop of Ardcarne in Roscommon in Ireland (c. 518)
  • Saint Senán mac Geirrcinn (Senames), a monk in Kilmanagh in Ireland (c. 540)
  • Saint Felix of Burgundy, Bishop of Dunwich and Enlightener of East Anglia (c. 648)
  • Saint Julian of Toledo, Archbishop of Toledo and Confessor (690)
  • Saint Humphrey (Hunfrid of Prüm), Bishop of Therouanne in France and was Abbot of St Bertin (871)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Saints Lazarus (1391) and Athanasius (15th century), monks of Murman Island, Onega Lake.,

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr John Znamensky, Priest (1923)
  • Martyr Vladimir Ushkov (1942)

    • Other commemorations

  • “Kursk Root” Icon of the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos (“Kurska-Korinna”) (1295)
  • Repose of Archbishop Vitaly (Maximenko) of Eastern America (1960)
  • Repose of Andronicus (Lukash), Schema-Archimandrite of Tbilisi, Georgia, Elder of Glinsk Hermitage (1974)

    • References

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