March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
March 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 6-2006:*Sunday of Forgiveness *Cheese-Fare Sunday -Fixed commemorations:...
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 7
Fixed commemorations
All commemorations below are observed on March 19 by Old CalendaristsOld calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...
Saints
- MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
s Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, and Basoes, in AmoriumAmoriumAmorium was a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor which was founded in the Hellenistic period, flourished under the Byzantine Empire, and declined after the Arab sack of 838. Its ruins are located near the village of Hisarköy, Turkey....
in PhrygiaPhrygiaIn antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. The Phrygians initially lived in the southern Balkans; according to Herodotus, under the name of Bryges , changing it to Phruges after their final migration to Anatolia, via the...
(845) - SaintSaintA saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...
Arcadius of Cyprus, monkMonkA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...
(4th century) - Martyrs Conon, monk, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270s)
- Martyr Abraham of BulgariaAbraham of BulgariaAbraham of Bulgaria was a Christian convert from Islam later made a martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.He was born in Volga Bulgaria, amongst the Muslim Volga Bulgars in what is now Tatarstan, Russia. He grew to become a Islamic merchant, and was later converted to Christianity. He...
- Saint Fridolin, abbotAbbotThe word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...
and enlightener of the Upper RhineUpper RhineThe Upper Rhine is the section of the Rhine in the Upper Rhine Plain between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometers 170 to 529 ....
(6th century) - Monk-martyr Maximus
- Martyr Euphrosynus
- Martyr Julian
- Saint Hesychius the Wonderworker, monk
Other commemorations
- Repose of Elder Job of Solovki (1720)