March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 7

Contents 1 2006 2 Fixed commemorations 3 Saints 4 Other commemorations

[edit] 2006

• Clean Monday, the beginning of Great Lent

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All commemorations below are observed on March 19 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyrs Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, and Basoes, in Ammoria in Phrygia (845)
• Saint Arcadius of Cyprus, monk (4th century)
• Martyrs Conon, monk, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270s)
• Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria
• Saint Fridolin, abbot and enlightener of the Upper Rhine (6th century)
• Monk-martyr Maximus
• Martyr Euphrosynus
• Martyr Julian
• Saint Hesychius the Wonderworker, monk

[edit] Other commemorations

• Repose of Elder Job of Solovki (1720)