March 9 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)

March 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 10

All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''March 22'' by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''February 24 (February 25 on leap years)''.

Saints

* Martyr Urpasian the Senator, at Nicomedia, by being burned alive (c. 305)March 9/March 22
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
* ''The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste'' (320):Great Synaxaristes:
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τεσσαράκοντα Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Σεβαστείᾳ
'' 9 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
:* Cyrion (or Quirio), Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus, Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John, Xanthias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angus, Aetius, Flavius, Acacius, Ecdicius, Lysimachus, Alexander, Elias, Gorgonius, Theophilus, Dometian, Gaius, Leontius, Athanasius, Cyril, Sacerdon, Nicholas, Valerius, Philoctimon, Severian, Chudion, Aglaius, and Meliton.
* ''Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus (''Caesarios the Doctor''), brother of St. Gregory the Theologian'' (369)
* Saint Philoromus the Confessor, of Galatia (4th century)
* Righteous Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia. (''see also March 8 and May 7'')

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Pacianus, Bishop of Barcelona (390)March 9
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* Saint Constantine of Cornwall and Govan (576) (''see also: March 11'')
* Saint Bosa of York, Bishop of York (705)
* Venerable Vitalis of Castronovo, Sicily (994)
* Saint Anthony, a monk at Luxeuil in France, became a hermit in Froidemont in Franche-Comté (10th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Jonah, archbishop of Novgorod (1470)
* New Martyrs (two priests and forty students) of Momišići, Montenegro (1688)
* Saint Theodosius Levitsky, priest of Balta, Odessa (1845)
* Saint Dimitra (Ihorova), nun and foundress of the Vvedensk (''Vovedenska'') Convent in Kiev (1878)

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Mitrophan Buchnoff, Archpriest, of Voronezh (1931)March 22 / March 9
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
* New Hieromartyr Joasaph (Shakhov), Abbot, of Popovka (Moscow) (1938)
* New Hieromartyrs (1938):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. 20.9 марта (ст.ст.) 22 марта 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
:* Michael Maslov, Alexis Smirnov, Demetrius Glivenko, Sergius Lebedev, Sergius Zvetkov, Priests;
:* Nicholas Goryunov, Protodeacon.
* Virgin-martyrs Natalia Yulianova and Alexandra Samoylovoy (1938)

Other commemorations

* Translation to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229)
* "Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("The Word Was Made Flesh") (1666)
* Repose of Elder Cleopas of Ostrov-Vvedensky Monastery (1778)
* Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Theophilus (Rossokha) of Kiev (1996)
Схиархимандрит Феофил (Россоха) (1929–1996)
'' Православная энциклопедия «Азбука веры» (Azbyka.ru). Retrieved: 8 November 2019.

Icon gallery

File:FortyMartyrsofSebaste.JPG, The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.
File:Esgrafiat de Sant Pacià al palau episcopal de Barcelona.jpg, Saint Pacianus in the façade of the bishop's palace in Barcelona, Catalonia.
File:Св. муч. Авраамий Болгарский (современная икона).jpg, St. Abraham of Bulgaria.

Notes

References

Sources

March 9/March 22
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

March 22 / March 9
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

March 9
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. 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. 70–71.
Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes:
9 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
* Συναξαριστής.
9 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).
*
9 марта (ст.ст.) 22 марта 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

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