March's Orthodox Christian Saints
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St. David of Wales;
Martyr Eudocia of Heliopolis; Martyr Antonina of Nicaea; Virgin
Domnina; St. Albinus, bishop of Angers; St. Suitbert, bishop of
southern Westphalia and monastic founder on the Rhine River; St.
Leo-Luke of Corleone, Sicily; St. Agapius of the Vatopedi Skete of
Kolitsou, Mt. Athos, & his four companions; St. Martyrius, abbot of
Zelenets; New Martyr Paraskevas of Trebizond; New Martyr Abbess
Antonina of Kizliar
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Hieromartyr
Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia; Hieromartyrs Nestor the bishop &
Tribimius the deacon, of Perga; Virgin-martyr Euthalia of Sicily;
Martyr Troadius of Neo-Caesarea; Martyr Hesychius the Palatine of
Antioch; St. Agatho of Egypt; 440 Martyrs slain by the Lombards in
Italy; St. Chad, bishop of Lichfield, England; St. Arsenius, bishop of
Tver; St. Sabbatius, monk of Tver & his disciple St. Euphrosynus;
Ss. Barsanuphrius & Sabbas, abbots of Tver; New Martyr Theodore
Sladic of Komogovina; St. Joachim, monk of Vatopedi; St. Quintus of
Phrygia, confessor and wonderworker; Appearance of the Kolomenskoye
"Reigning" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos; *Repose
of Abbess Philareta of Ufa
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Martyrs
Eutropius & Cleonicus of Amasea & Basiliscus of Comana; St.
Piama, virgin; St. Alexandra of Alexandria; St. Winwaloe of Brittany;
St. Caluppan of Auvergne; St. Non, mother of St. David of Wales;
St. John IV Chrysostom, catholicos of Georgia; Hieromartyr Theodoretus,
priest of Antioch; Volokolamsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
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St. Gerasimos of the Jordan;
St. Julian, patriarch of Alexandria; Martyrs Paul, his sister Juliana,
& Quadratus, Acacius, & Stratonicus, at Ptolemais in Syria; St.
Gregory, bishop of Constantia in Cyprus; St. James the Faster of
Phoenicia; Translation of the relics of Martyr Wenceslaus, prince of
the Czechs; St. Gregory, bishop of Assos near Ephesus; St. Gerasimus,
monk of Vologda; Blessed Basil, prince of Rostov; Saints of Pskov
martyred by the Latins: St. Ioasaph of Snetogorsk Monastery & St.
Basil of Mirozh Monastery; St. Daniel, prince of Moscow; New
Hieromartyrs Archpriest Dimitry Ivanov of Kiev & Priest Vyacheslav
Leontiev of Nizhegorod; *Repose
of Schemamonk Mark of Glinsk Hermitage & Schemanun Agnia, eldress of Karaganda
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Martyr
Conon of Isauria; Martyr Conon the Gardener of Pamphylia; Martyr
Onisius of Isauria; Virgin-martyr Irais of Antinoe in Egypt; St.
Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; Martyr Eulogius of
Palestine; Martyr Eulampius of Palestine; St. Mark the Faster of Egypt;
St. Kieran of Saighir, Munster; St. Virgil, archbishop of Arles; Martyr
Archelaus & 152 Martyrs in Egypt; St. Hesychius the Faster of
Bithynia; Ss. Basil & Constantine, princes of Yaroslavl;
Translation of the relics of St. Theodore, prince of Smolensk &
Yaroslav, & his children Ss. David & Constantine; Monk-martyr
Adrian, abbot of Poshekhoyne & his fellow ascetic St. Leonidas; New
Martyr John the Bugarian; New Hireomartyr Parthenius, bishop of
Didymoteichon in Thrace; New Martyr George of Rapsana; St. Nikolai,
bishop of Ochrid & Zhicha; *Repose
of Metropolitan Cornelius of Novgorod
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The
42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetius,
Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, & others;
Monk-martyrs Conon & his son Conon, of Iconium; Martyrs Cyriacus
& 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg; The
uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress St. Helen;
St. Arcadius, monk of Cyprus, & his disciples Julian & Bulius;
St. Fridolin, abbot, enlightener of the Upper Rhine; Translation to
Vladimir of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga;
St. Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk; Isons of the Most Holy Theotokos
"Chenstokhovskaya" & "Blessed Heaven"; *Repose
of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer
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The
Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene,
Aetherius, Elpidius, & Agathodorus; St. Paul the Simple of Egypt,
disciple of St. Anthony the Great;
St. Emilian of Rome; St. Ephraim, patriarch of Antioch; St. Paul the
Confessor, bishop of Plousias; St. Dandus and All Saints of Thrace;
Martyrs Codratus, Saturnius, & Rufinus of Nicomedia (Gr. cal.); Ss.
Nestor & Arcadius, bishops of Tremithus; St. Laurence, founder of
the monastery of the Mother of God on Salamis; Icons of the Most Holy
Theotokos "Surety of Sinners" & "of Czestochowa"; *Repose
of Schemamonk Sisoes of Valaam
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St. Theodore Stratelates;
St. Theophylactus, bishop of Nicomedia; Apostle Hermas of the Seventy;
Hieromartyr Theodoretus, priest of Antioch; St. Dometius; St. Felix of
Burgundy, bishop of Dunwich & enlightener of East Anglia; Martyrs
Quintilian & Capatolinus; Ss. Lazarus & Athanasius, monks of
Murman Island, Onega Lake; St. Paul the Confessor, bishop of Plousias
(Gr. cal.); St. Tarasius the Wonderworker of Lycaonia (Gr. cal.);
"Kursk Root" icon of the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos; *Repose
of Archbishop Vitaly of Eastern America; Schema-archimandrite Andronicus of Tbilisi, Georgia, elder of Glinsk Monastery
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The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste:
Cyrion, Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus,
Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John,
Xanthias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angus, Aetius, Flavius, Acacius,
Ecdicius, Lysimachus, Alexander, Elias, Gorgonius, Theophilus,
Dometian, Gaius, Leontius, Athanasius, Cyril, Sacerdon, Nicholas,
Valerius, Philoctimon, Severian, Chudion, Aglaius, & Meliton;
Martyr Urpasianus of Nicomedia; St. Philoromus the Confessor of
Galatia; St. Caesarius, brother of St. Gregory the Theologian,
St. Pacianus, bishop of Barcelona; St. Vitalis of Castronovo; St.
Tarasius the Wonderworker of Lycaonia; St. Jonah, archbishop of
Novgorod; New Hieromartyr Archpriest Mitrophan Buchnoff of Voronezh;
"Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("The Word Was Made Flesh"); *Repose
of Elder Cleopas of Ostrov-Vvedensky Monastery; Priest Theodosius Levitsky; Schema-archmandrite Theophilus of Kiev
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Martyrs
Codratus & with him: Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens,
Dionysius, Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus,
Serapion, Papias, Leonidas, Chariessa, Nunechia, Basilissa, Nika,
Galla, Galina, Theodora, and others, at Corinth; Martyrs Codratus,
Saturninus, & Rufinus of Nicomedia; St. Anastasia the Patrician of
Alexandria; St. George Arselaites; St. Attalus, abbot of Bobbio; St.
John of Khakuhli, Georgia, called Chrysostom; New Martyr Michael of
Agrapha; St. Paul of Taganrog; *Commemoration of the desert-dwellers of the Roslavl Forests near Briansk; Repose of Priest Alexander Badanin of Vologda
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St. Sophronius The Great;
Hieromartyr Pionius, priest of Smyrna, & those with him:
Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus, & Sabina; Translation to
Constantinople of the relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelsium; St.
George, abbot of Sinai, brother of St. John Climacus;
St. Oengus the Culdee, bishop, of Clonenagh, Ireland; Hieromartyr
Eulogius, metropolitan of Cordoba; St. Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev
Caves; St. Euthymius, archbishop of Novgorod, St. Sophronius, bishop of
Vratsa, Bulgaria; St. Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves; Martyrs
Trophimus & Thalus of Laodicea (Gr. cal.); St. George the New,
wonderworker of Constantinople (Gr. cal.); St. Theodora, queen of Arta,
wife of Despot Michael II of Epirus (Gr. cal.); *Slaying of Emperor Paul I of Russia
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St. Gregory Dialogos; St. Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane; Ss. Symeon the New Theologian & his elder, Smeon the Reverent of the Studion; Righteous Aaron the High Priest, brother of Prophet Moses the God-seer;
Righteous Phineas, grandson of Aaron; St. Cyrus, monk of Alexandria;
St. Paul, bishop of Leon in Brittany; St. Alphege, bishop of
Winchester, England; St. Nicodemus of Mammola in Calabria; Martyr Demetrius the Devoted,
king of Georgia; St. Theoctistus Dragutin of Serbia; Icon of the Most
Holy Theotokos "Not-Made-By-Hands" (on the Pillar) at Lydda; *Repose
of Schemamonk Anthony the Gorge-dweller of Zelenchug Monastery in Kuban
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Translation
of the relics of St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of
Constantinople; Hieromartyr Publius, bishop of Athens & disciple of
St. Dionysius the Areopagite; Martr Alexander of Macedonia; Martyrs
Africanus, Publius, & Terence of Carthage; Martyr Christina of
Persia; St. Leander, bishop of Seville; New Hieromartyr Stephen, bishop
of Izhevsk; *Repose
of Elder Ephraim of Valaam & Bishop Tikhon of Kyrillov
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St.
Benedict of Nursia, abbot; Martyr Eustathius & his company at
Carrhae, Mesopotamia; St. Euschemon, bishop of Lampsacus; St.
Rostislav-Michael, great prince of Kiev; St. Theognostus, metropolitan
of Kiev & Moscow; Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore
("Feodorovskaya") of Kostroma; *Repose
of Blessed John, fool-for-Christ of Yurievits
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Martyrs
Agapius, Publius, Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, & two
named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine; Hieromartyr Alexander of
Side in Pamphylia; Martyr Nicander of Egypt; St. Zachariah, pope of
Rome; St. Nicander, monk, of Gorodets; New Martyr Manuel of Crete;
Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain (Gr. cal.)
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Holy King Demetre the Devoted;
Martyr Sabinas of Hermopolis, Egypt; Martyr Papas of Lycaonia; Apostle
Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain; Hieromartyr Alexander,
pope of Rome; Hieromartyrs Trophimus & Thalus, priests of Laodicia;
Martyr Julian of Anazarbus; St. Abban of Kilabban, Ireland; Martyr
Romanus at Parium on the Hellespont; St. Christodulus, wonderworker of
Patmos; St. Pimen, fool-for-Christ, enlightener of the Dagestani, &
his companion Anthony of Meskhi, Georgia; New Martyr Malachi of Rhodes,
at Jerusalem; St. Serapion, archbishop of Novgorod; St. Ambrose
(Khelaia) the Confessor, catholicos of Georgia
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St. Alexis the Man of God;
Martyr Marinus; St. Ambrose of Alexandria, deacon; St. Gertrude, abbess
of Nivelles; St. Beccan of Rhum; St. Withburga, solitary at Holkham
& East Dereham; Monk-martyr Paul of Crete; St. Macarius, abbot of
Kalyazin; Hieromartyr Gabriel the Lesser of Gareji, Georgia; St.
Theosterictus the Confessor, abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa
(Gr. cal.); St. Patrick of Ireland; *Repose
of Archbishop Tikhon of San Francisco
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St. Nicholai of Zicha and Ochrid;
St. Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem; St. Aninas, priestmonk, of the
Euphrates; Martyrs Trophimus & Eucarpus of Nicomedia; St. Tetricus,
bishop of Langres in Gaul; St. Daniel, monk of Egypt; St. Edward the Martyr, king of England; St. Cyril of Astrakhan; St. Maria, nun, who suffered at Ravensbruck; *Repose
of Abbot Mark of Optina
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Martyrs
Chrysanthus & Daria, & those with them at Rome: Claudius the
Tribune, Hilaria his wife, their sons Jason & Maurus, Diodorus the
priest, and Marianus the deacon; Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia;
Righteous Mary, wife of Vsevelod III; St. Bassa, nun, of the Pskov
Caves; St. Innocent of Komel, disciple of St. Nilus of Sora; New Martyr
Demetrius at Constantinople; St. Sophia of Slutsk & Minsk; New
Martyr Nicholas of Karamanos; Smolensk "Umileniye" Icon of the Most
Holy Theotokos; *Repose
of Archimandrite Simeon of Dajbabe, Montenegro
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St. Photini, the Samaritan woman,
and her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, & Cyriaca, her sons
Victor & Joses; St. Sebastian the Duke, the officer St. Anatolius,
& Theoclitus, the former sorcerer-- all martyred under Nero;
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Archangel Gabriel
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Ss. Peter & Paul
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St. John of Climacos
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St. Innocent
*Those listed in red are not canonized in the Orthodox Church, but it is customary to celebrate a memorial for them on the day listed.
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