March 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mar. 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 9

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For March 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 23 (February 24 on leap years).

Saints

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

New Martyrs and Confessors

Other commemorations

Icon Gallery

Notes

  1. ↑ The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. ↑ "It is possible that this St Dometius is the same as St Dometius the Persian who is commemorated on August 7 with his two disciples."[9]
  3. ↑ He was with St Cyprian in his exile, at his trial and execution, and wrote his Life.
  4. ↑ A monk in Kilmanagh in Ireland. Having founded a monastery, probably in Enniscorthy, he is said to have visited Rome and on his way home stayed with St David in Wales. On his return to Ireland he founded more churches and monasteries, notably one in Iniscarra near Cork. Finally he settled on Scattery Island in the Shannon estuary where he was buried.
  5. ↑ "ST. FELIX was a native of Burgundy, and was already consecrated Bishop, when his zeal for the spread of the Faith brought him to England, that he might share in the work of the conversion of our ancestors. He explained his wish to St. Honorius, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was advised by him to betake himself to East Anglia, where the pious King St. Sigebert was labouring for the conversion of his people. The Saint established his See at Dunwich, in Suffolk, and forthwith began his apostolic work. So great was the success with which God favoured him that, after an episcopate of seventeen years, when he was called to the reward of his labours, the whole province was found to be Christian. St. Felix was buried at Dunwich, but afterwards translated to Seham, near Ely, and finally, many years later, to Ramsey Abbey."[18]
  6. ↑ A monk at Agali in Spain under St Eugene, whom he succeeded first as Abbot and in 680 as Archbishop of Toledo. He was the first Metropolitan of All Iberia. Presiding over several national Councils, revising and developing the Mozarabic liturgy, he was a prolific writer and outstanding churchman.
  7. ↑ He was a source of strength and comfort to the people during the Norman invasion. He kept the feast of the Dormition with special splendour.
  8. ↑ This is a copy of the famous “Kursk Root” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos commemorated on November 27.[26]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 March 8/March 21. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  2. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἑρμῆς ὁ Ἀπόστολος. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  3. ↑ Apostle Hermas of the Seventy. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  4. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Δίων ὁ Μάρτυρας. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 8 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
  6. ↑ 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.20.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 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.69-70.
  8. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Δομέτιος. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  9. ↑ Venerable Dometius. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  10. ↑ Hieromartyr Theodoritus of Antioch. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  11. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ Ὁμολογητής. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  12. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοφύλακτος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Νικομήδειας. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  13. ↑ St Theophylactus the Bishop of Nicomedia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 March 8. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  15. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύριλλος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  16. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Φηλικίτη, Ἑρένια, Ρογάτος, Φίλιξ, Ρογάτος, Βεάτος, Οὐρβανός, Σιλβάνος καὶ Μάμμιλος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  17. ↑ St Felix of Burgundy the Bishop of Dunwich and Enlightener of East Anglia. OCA - Lives of Saints
  18. ↑ Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 108.
  19. ↑ Venerable Lazarus of Murom. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  20. ↑ Venerable Athanasius of Murom. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  21. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ὅσιοι Λάζαρος καὶ Ἀθανάσιος ἐκ Ρωσίας. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 March 21 / March 8. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 (Russian) 8 марта (ст.ст.) 21 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
  24. ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Σημείου ἐν Κοὺρσκ τῆς Ρωσίας. 8 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  25. ↑ Dr. Alexander Roman. March. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
  26. ↑ Icon of the Mother of God Kursk Root “of the Sign”. OCA - Lives of Saints.

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