March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mar. 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Mar. 10

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For March 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 24 (February 25 on leap years).

Saints

• Martyr Urpasianus the Senator, at Nicomedia, by being burned alive (c. 305)^[1][2][3]
• The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320):^{[1][4][5][note 2]}

• Cyrion (or Quirio), 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, and Meliton.

• Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus (Caesarios the Doctor), brother of St. Gregory the Theologian (369)^[1][6][7]
• Saint Philoromus the Confessor, of Galatia (4th century)^[1]
• Saint Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia.^[1]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Pacianus, Bishop of Barcelona (390)^[1][8]
• Saint Constantine of Cornwall and Govan (576)^{[8][note 3]} (see also: March 11^[12])
• Saint Bosa of York, Bishop of York (705)^[1][8]
• Venerable Vitalis of Castronovo, Sicily (994)^[1][13]
• Saint Anthony, a monk at Luxeuil in France, became a hermit in Froidemont in Franche-Comté (10th century)^[8]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Jonah, archbishop of Novgorod (1470)^[1][14]
• New Martyrs (two priests and forty students) of Momisici (Montenegro) (1688)^[1]
• Venerable Elder Cleopas of Ostrov-Vvedensky Monastery (1778)^{[1][15][note 4]}
• Saint Theodosius Levitsky, priest of Balta (Odessa) (1845)^[1][14]
• Saint Dimitra (Ihorova), nun and foundress of the Vvedensk (Vovedenska) Convent in Kiev (1878)^[1][14]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Mitrophan Buchnoff, Archpriest, of Voronezh (1931)^[1][16]
• New Hieromartyr Joasaph (Shakhov), Abbot, of Popovka (Moscow) (1938)^[1][16]
• New Hieromartyrs:

• Michael Maslov, Alexis Smirnov, Demetrius Glivenko, Sergius Lebedev, Sergius Zvetkov, Priests; and
• Nicholas Goryunov, Protodeacon (1938)^[16][17][18]

• Virgin-martyrs Natalia Yulianova and Alexandra Samoylovoy (1938)^[16][18]

Other commemorations

• "Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("The Word Was Made Flesh") (1666)^{[1][19][20][note 5]}
• Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Theophilus (Rossokha) of Kiev (1996)^[1][14]

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• March 9/March 22. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• March 22 / March 9. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• March 9. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. March. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• 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.
• March 9. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• 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. 70–71.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 9 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 9 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 9 марта (ст.ст.) 22 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).