March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Mar. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 23-Fixed commemorations:All commemorations below are observed on April 4 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra*Isaac of Dalmatia*Martyr Drosida of Antioch, and five nuns...

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March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Mar. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 25-Fixed commemorations:All commemorations below are observed on April 6 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Saint Zacharias the Recluse*Saint Ancmon, Bishop of Seleucia...


Fixed commemorations

All commemorations below are observed on April 5 by Old Calendarists
Old calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...


Saints

  • Monk
    Monk
    A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

    -martyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

     Nicon and 200 disciples with him in Sicily
    Sicily
    Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

  • Saint
    Saint
    A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

     Nicon, abbot
    Abbot
    The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...

     of the Kiev Caves
  • Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, the notary
    Civil law notary
    Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State...

     Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria
    Illyria
    In classical antiquity, Illyria was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by the Illyrians....

  • Martyr Dometius of Phrygia
  • Martyr Luke the New of Mytilcne on Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

  • Saint Basil of Mangazea in Siberia
    Siberia
    Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...


Other Commemorations

  • Repose of Elder Porphyrius of Glinsk Hermitage (1868)
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