March 5 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...

Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rul ...

March 7 Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. * 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...

All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''March 19'' by Orthodox Churches on the

Old Calendar Old Calendarists (Greek language, Greek: ''palaioimerologitai'' or ''palaioimerologites''), also known as Old Feasters (''palaioeortologitai''), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; ), are traditionalist groups of Easte ...

. For March 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''

February 21 Events Pre-1600 * 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. * 1440 – The Prus ...

(

February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdina ...

on leap years)''.

Saints

* Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270-275)March 6/March 19
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (c. 304)March 19 / March 6
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). * Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling water. * Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoning. * '' Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helena in Jerusalem'' (326) * Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Euboulos. * Saint Arkadios,

Archbishop of Cyprus This is a list of Archbishops of Cyprus since its foundation with known dates of enthronement. According to tradition, the Church of Cyprus was created by St. Barnabas in 45 AD. The see of Cyprus was declared autocephalous by the Council of Ephes ...

(527–565) * Venerable Hesychius the Wonderworker. ''(see also:

)'' * ''The holy

42 Martyrs of Amorium The 42 Martyrs of Amorium ( grc-gre, οἰ ἅγιοι μβ′ μάρτυρες τοῦ Ἀμορίου) were a group of Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid Caliphate in the Sack of Amorium in 838 and executed in 845, after r ...

(in

Phrygia In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; grc, Φρυγία, ''Phrygía'' ) was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. After its conquest, it became a region of the great empires ...

),'' including: :* Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others, in

Samarra Samarra ( ar, سَامَرَّاء, ') is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, north of Baghdad. The city of Samarra was founded by Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutasim for his Turkish professional army ...

(845)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint

Marcian of Tortona Saint Marcian (Marciano, Marziano, Marcianus) of Tortona (died 117 or 120 AD) is a saint of Roman Catholic church. He is traditionally said to have been the first bishop of Tortona, in what is now north-western Italy, a post he held for forty-five ...

(120)March 6
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint

Patrick of Avernia Some martyrologies mention against 16 March a Patrick, bishop of Avernia. Avernia was the Latin name for the Auvergne, but no such Patrick is known there. The reference should have been to Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland Ireland ( ...

(ca. 307) * Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna in Italy for twenty years, 315-335 (335) * Saint

Fridolin of Säckingen Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, also known as Fridold or Fredelinus, is a legendary Irish missionary, apostle of the Alamanni and founder of Säckingen Abbey on the Upper Rhine. He is also the patron saint of the Swiss canton of Glarus. His oldes ...

, abbot, Enlightener of the

Upper Rhine The Upper Rhine (german: Oberrhein ; french: Rhin Supérieur) is the section of the Rhine between Basel in Switzerland and Bingen in Germany, surrounded by the Upper Rhine Plain. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometres 170 to 529 (the sc ...

(540) * Saints

Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba were female members of the Mercian royal family in 7th century England who were venerated as saints. Kyneburga and Kyneswide Kyneburga (d. c. 680) (also called Cyneburh in Old English); the name being also render ...

, female members of the Mercian royal family in 7th century England (c. 680)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. 102-105. * Saint

Baldred of Tyninghame Balthere of Tyninghame (later Baldred) was a Northumbrian hermit and abbot, resident in East Lothian during the 8th century. Dating According to Hovendeus the date of Baldred's death is given as 756. Symeon of Durham says "the twentieth year of ...

(''Balther''), a priest in Lindisfarne in England who became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article XV.—St. Baldred or Baltherus, Hermit, and Missionary, in Scotland, and St. Bilfrid, or Bilfred, a Hermit, at Lindisfarne, in England. robably in the Seventh or Eighth Century" In: '' Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons.'' VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 202-205.Rev.

Sabine Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould ( ; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 ...

(M.A.). "SS. BALTHER AND BILFRED, H. H. (ABOUT A.D. 756.)." In: '' The Lives of the Saints.'' Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 94-95. * Saint

Chrodegang of Metz Chrodegang ( la, Chrodogangus; german: Chrodegang, Hruotgang;Spellings of his name in (Latin) primary sources are extremely varied: Chrodegangus, Grodegandus, Grodegangus, Grodogangus, Chrodogandus, Krodegandus, Chrodegrangus, Chrotgangus, Ruotga ...

, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part in several Councils (766) * Saint Bilfrid (''Billfrith''), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th century) * Saint

Cathróe of Metz Saint Cathróe ( circa 900–971) was a monk and abbot. His life is recorded in a hagiography written soon after his death by a monk at the at Metz, where Cathróe was abbot. Miracles of healing were attributed to Cathróe during his life, ...

(''Cadroe, Cadroel'') (976)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Job (''Joshua in schema'') of Anzersk Island, Solovki (1720)

Other commemorations

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to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229) * Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989)

Icons

* " Chenstokhovskaya" (Poland) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (''Black Madonna of Częstochowa''). * "Blessed Heaven" (Moscow) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. * The Shestokhovsk ("Hearth"), or Sheltomezhsk, Icon of the Mother of God (18th century)Great Synaxaristes:
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Καρδίας ἐν Σελτομέζᾳ τῆς Ρωσίας
'' 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Icon gallery

File:Chrodegang.jpg, St.

. File:Czestochowska.jpg, Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Czestochowa" (Black Madonna). File:Blagodatnoe Nebo.jpg, "Blessed Heaven" (Moscow) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. File:Св. муч. Авраамий Болгарский (современная икона).jpg, Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria.

Notes

References

Sources

March 6/March 19
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
March 19 / March 6
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
March 6
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). pp. 19–20.

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. 67–68. * 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. 102–105. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
6 Μαρτίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *
6 марта (ст.ст.) 19 марта 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). {{DEFAULTSORT:March 6 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) March in the Eastern Orthodox calendar