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March 23 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective March23 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius (Bogolep), the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125)March 23/April 5. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Martyr Philetus the Senator, his wife and sons in Illyria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: March 27) Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Νίκων ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ ἑκατὸν ἐνενήκοντα μαθητές του. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyr Nikon in Sicily. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Δομέτιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: October 30)

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Victorian, Frumentius, other Frumentius and Companions (484)March 23. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Gwinear (Guigner) of Cornwall, born Fingar (5th century)April 5 / March 23. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th century) Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North Africa. Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th century)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "ARTICLE I.—ST. MAIDOC, OR MOMHAEDOG, ABBOT OF FIDDOWN, COUNTY OF KILKENNY. [SIXTH CENTURY]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 929-931. Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy, miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550) Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne for twelve years (699)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. 130.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ETHELWOLD, H. (ABOUT A.D. 723.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 441-443. Saint Felix of Montecassino (ca. 1000)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Venerable Nicon the Great, abbot of the Kiev Caves (1088)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Νίκων καθηγούμενος τῆς Λαύρας τῶν Σπηλαίων τοῦ Κιέβου. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Nikon the Abbot of the Kiev Far Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐφραὶμ ἐκ Ρωσίας. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Παχώμιος ἐκ Ρωσίας. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Bassian, Archbishop of Rostov (1481)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασσιανὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Ροστὼβ τῆς Ρωσίας. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Totma, Russia (1568)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ Θαυματουργός ἐκ Ρωσίας. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: January 28) Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker (1602)Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: March 22; and June 6, May 10 - Translation of Relics) New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Λουκᾶς ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Ἁγιαννανίτης. 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820)Rev. Joseph Wolff. LETTER V.: Linthwaite, 2d April, 1839. In: Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wοlff: In a series of letters to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart: Containing an Account of his Missionary Labours from the Years 1827-1831: and from the Years 1835-1838. London: James Burns 1839. pp. 232-33. (see also: April 5) Saint Elena (Bekhteeva), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834) Sergey Geruk. ПРЕПОДОБНАЯ ЕЛЕНА – ХРАНИТЕЛЬНИЦА КИЕВА. Православие.Ru. October 8, 2009.

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Constantine Petrovich Snyatinovsky (1918) New Hieromartyr Macarius Feodorovich Kvitkin, Protopriest of Orenburg (1931)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. 23. Пятница, 23 марта (ст.ст.) 5 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). New Hieromartyr Elias (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Vladimir (1938) New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklin, and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938) New Martyr James (1938) Virgin-martyr Anastasia Stefanovna Bobkova, novice (1938) Virgin-martyr BarBara (Konkina), nun (1938) Martyr Alexis Simeonovich Skorobogatov (1938) New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)

Other commemorations

Icon of Our Lady of Antioch (580) Repose of Saint Helena Dragaš in monasticism Hypomone (1450) Repose of Elder Porphyrius of Glinsk Hermitage (1868) Commemoration of execution of Vladimir Petrovich Gorizontov of Orenburg (1931)

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References

Sources March 23/April 5. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). April 5 / March 23. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). March 23. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. 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. 23. March 23. 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. 84–85. 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. pp. 130–131. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 23 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 23 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 5 апреля (23 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 23 марта (ст.ст.) 5 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).