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March 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 23

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 4 by Eastern 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) <small>(see also: July 28)</small>
  • 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) <small>(see also: May 30)</small>

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 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 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) <small>(see also: June 6 and May 10 - Translation of Relics)</small>
  • 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) <small>(see also: January 25)</small>
  • 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) <small>(see also: December 29)</small>
  • Commemoration of Maria Berushko of Brazil and eight students who died trying to save people during a fire in their school (1986)

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File:Epaphroditus.jpg|Saint Epaphroditus.

File:Menologion of Basil 063.jpg|Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra.

File:Isaac of Dalmatia.jpg|Saint Isaac the Confessor.

File:Santa lea.jpg|Saint Lea of Rome.

File:Basil of Caesarea and Basil of Mangazeya.jpg|Basil of Caesarea and Basil of Mangazeya.

File:Василий (Зеленцов).jpg| Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava.

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Notes

References

Sources

  • March 22/April 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • April 4 / March 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • March 22. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.&nbsp;23.
  • March 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp.&nbsp;83–84.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 22 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 22 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

  • 4 апреля (22 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 22 марта (ст.ст.) 4 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).