March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For March 1, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed on February 16 (February 17 on leap years).
Saints
- Righteous martyr Eudokia of Heliopolis (107)[1][2][3][4][note 2][note 3]
- Martyrs Nestorianus (Nestor), Tribimius, Marcellus, and Anthony, of Perge in Pamphylia, by the sword (249-251)[1][7][8]
- Martyr Antonina of Nicaea in Bithynia (c. 286-305)[1][9][10][11][note 4] (see also: June 12)
- Virgin-martyr Domnina of Syria (c. 460)[1][12][13][14]
- Martyrs Antonius, Marcellus, Silvester and Sophronius, in Palestine.[15]
- Martyrs Agapius, Nicephorus and Charisius.[16]
- Saint Silvester.[17][note 5]
- Saint Synesius, ascetic of Lysos, Cyprus.[18]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- 260 Martyrs of Rome (c. 269)[19][note 6]
- Martyrs Hermes, Adrian and Companions, in Numidia in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus (c. 290)[6][19]
- Martyr Luperculus (3rd century)[19]
- Martyrs Leo, Donatus, Abundantius, Nicephorus, and nine others - a group of thirteen martyrs who laid down their lives for Christ in North Africa.[6][19]
- Saint Felix III, Pope of Rome from 483-492 (492)[19][note 7]
- Saint Herculanus of Perugia, Bishop of Perugia in Italy, beheaded by soldiers of Totila of the Ostrogoths (549)[19][note 8] (see also: November 7)
- Saint Albinus of Angers (Aubin) (c. 550)[1][6][19][20]
- Saint David of Wales, patron saint of Wales (c. 589)[1][19][21][22][23][24][note 9]
- Saint Marnock (Marnanus, Marnan, Marnoc) (c. 625)[19][note 10]
- Saint Suitbert (Swithbert), "Apostle of the Frisians", monastic founder in the Netherlands (713)[1][19][22][26][27][note 11][note 12]
- Saint Siviard, monk at Saint-Calais on the River Anisole in France, who succeeded his father as abbot of the monastery (729)[6][19]
- Saint Monan (874)[19][28][note 13]
- Venerable Luke of Sicily (Leo Luke of Corleone, Leoluca), Abbot of the Monastery of Mount Mula in Calabria and Wonderworker (c. 915).[1][19][29][30][31][note 14]
- Martyrs Gervasius and Leo (Léon I or Leo of Rouen, "Apostle of the Basques" and Bishop of Bayonne), brothers (c. 900).[19][32][33][note 15]
- Saint Rudesind, a Galician bishop and abbot (977)[19][34][note 16]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Agapius of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos (13th century).[1][35][36]
- Venerable Martyrius, Abbot of Zelenetsk in Pskov (1603)[1][37][38]
- New martyr Parascevas of Trebizond (1659)[1][39]
New martyrs and confessors
- New hieromartyr Methodius, of Russia (1920)[40]
- New martyr Antonina of Kizliar, Abbess (1924)[1][41]
- New martyr Anastasia Andreyevna, Fool-for-Christ, in the North Caucasus.[42][43]
- Venerable Mother Zosima of Ennatsky (1935)[44][45][46][note 17]
- New Hieromartyr Olga (1937)[47]
- New Hieromartyr Peter Lyubimov, Archpriest, of Kishkino, Moscow (1938)[1][43][48]
- New Hieromartyrs (1938):[47]
- Basil Nikitsky, John Streltsov, Benjamin Famintsev,[1] and Michael Bukrinsky, priests;[48]
- New Hieromartyr Anthony Korzh, Hierodeacon of Kiziltash Monastery, Crimea;[1][48]
- Virgin-martyrs Anna, Daria Zaitseva, Eudokia Arkhipov, Alexandra Dyachkova;[48]
- Martyr Basil Arkhipov;[48]
- Virgin-martyr Hope (Nadezhda) Abakumova.[43][48]
Other commemorations
- Repose of Barsanuphius (Hrynevich), Archbishop of Tver (1958)
Icon gallery
Saint Eudokia of Heliopolis (19th century)
St. Domnina of Syria. Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II (11th century).
St. Herculanus, patron of Perugia, c. 1320.
St Albinus of Angers at the Council of Orleans (12th century).
St. David of Wales, 19th-century stained glass window, Oxford.
Votive image of St. Luke of Sicily, Abbot and Wonderworker of the Monastery of Mount Mula in Calabria.
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Notes
- 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"). - Kontakion. Fourth Tone. "When thou wast brought up from the mire of transgressions, like a most precious stone whose brightness is darkened, repentance made thee shine again with godliness, and when thou hadst reached the height of ascetical striving, Christ made thee illustrious with the glory of contest, and hath bestowed on thee His grace to heal, O wise Eudocia, thou rival of angel-kind."[5]
- As indicated in the Jerusalem Canonarion, as follows: (in Greek) «Ἐν τῇ Ἀναστάσει, τοῦ ἁγίου πατριάρχου Σιλβέστρου».
- He was an ancestor of St Gregory the Great. He was Pope of Rome from 483 on. He fought against Monophysitism and Eutychianism and also remedied the evils caused in Africa by numerous apostasies during the Vandal persecution.
- "At Perugia, the translation of St. Herculanus, bishop and martyr, who was beheaded by order of Totila, king of the Goths. Forty days after his decapitation his body, as pope St. Gregory relates, was found as sound and as firmly joined to the head as if it had never been touched by the sword."[6]
- Born in Ireland, he was with St Columba at Iona and later became a bishop, who reposed in Annandale and was much venerated on the Scottish border. He gave his name to Kilmarnock in Scotland.
- A monk from Northumbria in England who went to Friesland in the Netherlands with St Willibrord in 690. He preached the Gospel here with success. In 693 he was consecrated bishop at Ripon and returned to preach along the right bank of the Rhine in Germany. His work here was undone by Saxon invaders and he withdrew to the small island of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine near Düsseldorf. Here in 710 he founded a monastery, where he reposed and where his relics are still venerated.
- A saint from St Andrew's and a missionary in the Firth of Forth area in Scotland. He was killed by the Danes together with many companions.
- Abbot and Wonderworker of the Monastery of Mount Mula in Calabria, and one of the founders of Italo-Greek monasticism in southern Italy and Sicily. He was born in the Sicilian town of Corleone and died about a hundred years later in Monteleone Calabro, now Vibo Valentia, in Calabria. Today he is a patron saint of both towns. He died a centenarian after eighty years of monastic life.
- Born of a noble family in Galicia in Spain, he became Bishop of Mondoñedo and then of Compostella. In this capacity he opposed with equal success both the Vikings and the Saracens. Exiled from Compostella through an intrigue, he founded the monastery of Celanova and other monasteries.
- On June 11, 2006, on the feast of the Holy Trinity in the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent (or Martha and Mary Convent) in the village of Ira, of the Kumertau district, in the Ufa Diocese, Archbishop Nikon of Ufa and Sterlitamak performed the rite of canonization of Mother Zosima of Ennatsky. Venerable Zosima of Ennatsky is commemorated on the day of her birth and the day of her repose, both of which took place on March 1st.[44]
- See also November 1.