March 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 21 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 March21 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy.March 21/April 3. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δομνίνος καὶ Φιλήμων οἱ Μάρτυρες. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.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.82–83. (see also: March 26) Saint Maria the Martyr, in Perge.Great Synaxaristes: Ἡ Ἁγία Μαρία ἡ Μάρτυς ἡ ἐν Πέργῃ. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Egypt (c. 358)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεραπίων ὁ Σιδώνιος. 21 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.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.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. SERAPION, B. OF THMUIS. (4TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 371. Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεραπίων ὁ Σιδώνιος. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: May 14) Saint Sophronius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Theodosius, in Palestine (542) Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople (610)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Θωμᾶς Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.St Thomas the Patriarch of Constantinople. OCA – Feasts and Saints. Venerable Jacob the Confessor (James the Confessor), Bishop, of the Studion (late 8th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ Ὁμολογητής. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Beryllus, Bishop of Catania (c. 90)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Βήρυλλος Ἐπίσκοπος Κατάνης. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.March 21. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Lupicinus of Condat, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains, Gaul (480)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. LUPICINUS, AB. OF CONDATE. (ABOUT A.D. 430.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 371-376. Saint Enda of Aran, Abbot of Arranmore, monk, earliest leader of Irish monasticism (530)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "ARTICLE I.—ST. ENDEUS OR ENDA, ABBOT OF ARRAN, COUNTY OF GALWAY. [FIFTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 911-921.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ENDA, AB. OF ARAN-MORE. (ABOUT A.D. 540.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 376-387.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (Michael of Soluneia), at Thessalonica (1544 or 1547)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μιχαὴλ ὁ Νεομάρτυρας. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. Νεομάρτυρος Μιχαήλ του εκ Γρανίτσης Ευρυτανίας (1544). ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Venerable Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Σεραφείμ ἐκ Βυρίτσας Ρωσίας. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Seraphim of Virits. OCA – Feasts and Saints.

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vvedensky, Priest (1931)April 3 / March 21. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). 21 марта (ст.ст.) 3 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeyevsky), Archbishop (1938)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ποζδέγιεβ. 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: October 10)

Other commemorations

Glorification of Venerable Pachomius, Abbot, of Nerekhta (1384) (see also: May 15)

Gallery

Notes

References

Sources March 21/April 3. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). April 3 / March 21. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). March 21. 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 21. 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. 82–83. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 21 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 21 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 3 апреля (21 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia – Pravenc.ru). 21 марта (ст.ст.) 3 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).