March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 5 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For March 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 10.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Constantine Petrovich Snyatinovsky (1918)[23]
  • New Hieromartyr Macarius Feodorovich Kvitkin, Protopriest of Orenburg (1931)[1][8][24][25][note 7]
  • New Hieromartyr Elias (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Vladimir (1938)[1][25][note 8]
  • New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklin,[note 9] and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938)[8][25][note 10]
  • New Martyr James (1938)[8]
  • Virgin-martyr Anastasia Stefanovna Bobkova, novice (1938)[8][25][note 11]
  • Virgin-martyr BarBara (Konkina), nun (1938)[26]
  • Martyr Alexis Simeonovich Skorobogatov (1938)[8][24][25]
  • New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)[1][8][24][25][note 12]

Other commemorations

Icon gallery

  • New Hieromartyr Macarius (Kvitkin), Protopresbyter of Orenburg (1931).
    New Hieromartyr Macarius (Kvitkin), Protopresbyter of Orenburg (1931).
  • New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948).
    New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948).

Notes

  1. [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. [2]
    "IN Africa, the holy martyrs Victorian, proconsul of Carthage, and two brothers, of Aquaregia. Also two merchants, named Frementius, who, bishop Victor Africanus tells us, were subjected to most atrocious torments for their courageous confession of the Catholic faith, and gloriously crowned under the Arian king Hunneric, during the persecution of the Vandals."[7]
  3. [3]
    "In Campania, St. Benedict, a monk, who was shut up by the Goths in a burning furnace, but was the next day found uninjured."[7]
  4. [4]
    On account of the many miracles at his tomb the Bishop of Chieti enshrined his relics for veneration.
  5. [5]
    "Now I will relate a remarkable instance of modern Martyrdom. A young Greek, some years ago, whose name was Panaiotes, was servant to a Turkish Nobleman, called Osman Effendi. He came with his master to Jerusalem, and when Osman Effendi went to worship in the Mosque of Omar, this young Greek accompanied him. Soon after Osman Effendi undertook a journey to Damascus, intending to return to Jerusalem, and left Panaiotes to await his return. When the Pasha of Damascus arrived here, on his annual visit, Panaiotes was accused to him of having profaned the Mosque of Omar, by having entered it; he was summoned to appear before the Pasha, and questioned as to why he did so; he answered that he had followed his master, whom it was his duty to follow. The penalty was death or to turn Muhammedan, which was much pressed upon him. Panaiotes exclaimed, "Christ is risen, who is the Son of the living God. I fear nothing."
    Pasha — "Say God is God, and Muhammed the Prophet of God, and I adopt you as my son."
    Panaiotes — "Christ is risen, I fear nothing."
    They led him out before the Castle of David, and drew up the soldiers around him with their swords drawn; but Panaiotes exclaimed, "I am a Christian! Christ is risen! I fear nothing!" He knelt down and prayed to Jesus Christ the Son of God, and exclaimed, "Christ is risen! I fear nothing." Even Christians advised him to turn Muhammedan. He exclaimed, "Christ is risen! I fear nothing." The executioner lifted up his fine hair which he wore, as many Greeks do, flowing down to the shoulders, and struck him several times with the sword so as to draw blood, in the hope that he might relent, but Panaiotes continued, "Jesus is the Son of the living God"; and crossing himself he exclaimed, "Christ is risen, I fear nothing," and his head fell.
    The Greek Convent paid 5000 piastres for leave to remove his body and bury him."[20]
  6. [6]
    St Elena was a friend of the great Ukrainian St Tikhon of Zadonsk. When the latter insisted on being buried in a humble wooden coffin, the monks found they could not fit his body into it with all his Episcopal robes, and so they buried him in another, larger coffin. St Helen asked for and received St Tikhon’s first coffin in which she herself was buried.[22]
  7. [7]
    See: (in Russian) Квиткин, Макарий Фёдорович. Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
  8. [8]
    (in Russian): Илия (Вятлин).
  9. [9]
    See: (in Russian) Коклин, Василий Павлович. Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
  10. [10]
    (in Russian): сщмч. Стефана Преображенского пресвитера (после 1937); сщмч. Василия Коклина пресвитера, прмч.[25]
  11. [11]
    (in Russian): Анастасии Бобковой и Варвары Конкиной, мч.[25]
  12. [12]
    See: (in Russian) Сергий (Сребрянский). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.

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