March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 6

2006

• Sunday of Forgiveness (see Paschal cycle)
• Cheese-Fare Sunday (the last day dairy products, fish, wine, and olive oil are to be consumed, before Pascha)

Fixed commemorations

All commemorations below are observed on March 18 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st century)
• Martyr Conon the Gardener of Pamphylia (3rd century)
• Virgin martyr Irais of Antinoe in Egypt (308)
• Martyr Eulogius of Palestine
• Martyr Eulampius of Palestine
• Martyr Onisius of Isauria (1st century)
• Saint Hesychius the Faster of Bithynia (790s)
• Saint Mark the Faster of Egypt (5th century)
• Martyrs Archelaus and 152 others in Egypt
• Saint Adrian of Poshekhnoye, monk, and his fellow ascetic

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Saints Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslav, and his children David and Constantine (1464)