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March 5 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 March5 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Κόνων ὁ Ἴσαυρος. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.March 5/March 18. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Martyr Conon of Isauria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyr Nestor, father of Martyr Conon of Isauria.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Νέστωρ ὁ Μάρτυρας. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Martyr Onisius (Onesimus) of Isauria, by beheading (1st century)Martyr Onesimus of Isauria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (200)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόφιλος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Καισαρείας. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Martyr Conon the Gardener, of Pamphylia (251)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Κόνων ὁ Κηπουρὸς. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyr Conon the Gardener of Pamphylia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyrs Archelaus, Kyrillos, Photios,Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀρχέλαος, Κύριλλος, Φώτιος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoë, and 152 Martyrs in Egypt (ca. 308)March 18 / March 5. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Venerable Conon of Cyprus (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Κόνων ἐκ Κύπρου. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Martyr Eulogius of Palestine.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐλόγιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyr Eulogius of Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyr Eulampius of Palestine, by the sword.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐλάμπιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyr Eulampius of Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Mark the Ascetic of Egypt (Mark the Athenian, Mark the Faster) (5th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Μᾶρκος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.St Mark the Ascetic of Egypt. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Hesychius the Faster, of Bithynia (790)St Hesychius the Faster of Bithynia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: March 6)

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Oliva of Brescia, martyred in Brescia in the north of Italy, under the Emperor Hadrian (138)March 5. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Eusebius, born in Cremona in Italy, he became an abbot in Bethlehem and took part in the struggle against Origenism. Saint Eusebius and Companions, a group of ten martyrs who suffered in North Africa. Saint Piran (Pyran, Kerrian), monk of Perranporth (c. 480)Patrons - The Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael and Holy Piran. Oecumenical Patriarchate, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. Laity Moor, Nr Ponsanooth, Cornwall. TR3 7HR. Retrieved: 7 March 2017. Saint Colman of Armagh, a disciple of St Patrick in Ireland (5th century)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article III.—St. Colman, surnamed the Thirsty. [Supposed to be of the Fifth Century]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 152-154. Saint Kieran of Saighir (Ciaran, Sen-Chiaráin = the Elder Ciarán), Munster (c. 530)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "ARTICLE I.—ST. KIERAN, OR CIARAN, FIRST BISHOP OF SAIGIR KING'S COUNTY, AND PATRON OF THE DIOCESE OF OSSORY. [FIFTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 115-148.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. KIERAN OR PIRAN, AB. OF SAIGIR. (ABOUT A.D. 552.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 66-72. Saint Carthage the Elder, the successor of St Kieran as Bishop of Ossory in Ireland (ca. 540)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article II.—St. Carthach, or Carthage, said to have been Bishop of Druim-fertain, and of Inis Uachtair, in Lough Sheelin, County of Westmeath, or, of Sier-Kieran, King's County. [Sixth Century]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 148-152. Saint Caron, the church at Tregaron in Dyfed in Wales is dedicated to him. Saint Virgilius of Arles, Archbishop of Arles (610)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). S. VIRGILIUS, ABP. OF ARLES. (ABOUT A.D. 618.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 72-73. Saint Clement, Abbot of Santa Lucia in Syracuse in Sicily (ca. 800)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl. Monk-martyr Adrian, Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550), and his fellow-ascetic St. Leonidas (1549)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἀδριανὸς καὶ Λεωνίδας οἱ Μάρτυρες ἐκ Ρωσίας. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Monkmartyr Adrian of Poshekhonye, Yaroslavl. OCA - Lives of the Saints. New Martyr John the Bulgarian, at Constantinople (1784)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Βουλγαρίας. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.St John the New Martyr of Bulgaria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805) (see also: March 15 - Greek) New Martyr George of Rapsani, at Larissa (1818)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Ραψάνης. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Nikolai (Velimirovich), Bishop of Ohrid and Žiča, Serbia (1956)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀχρίδος καὶ Ζίτσης. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. 5 марта (ст.ст.) 18 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pokrovsky (1919) New Hieromartyr John Mirotvortsiev (1938) New Hieromartyr Theophan (Grafov), Hierodeacon, of Borisoglebsk Monastery, Vladimir (1938) New Hieromartyr Mardarius (Isaev), Hieromonk, of Yurievskoe, Yaroslavl, (1938)

Other commemorations

Icon of the Mother of God "the Teacher" (or "Education" or "Nurtured Up-Bringing").Icon of the Mother of God “the Teacher”. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299), and his children Saints David (1321) and Constantine (c. 1322)Great Synaxaristes: Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Θεοδώρου τοῦ Πρίγκιπος καὶ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ Δαβὶδ καὶ Κωνσταντίνου. 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Finding of the relics of St Theodore the Prince of Smolensk, and Yaroslav, and His Children. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Repose of Metropolitan Cornelius of Novgorod (1698)

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References

Sources March 5/March 18. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). March 18 / March 5. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). March 5. 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. 19. March 5. 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. p. 66. 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. 102. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 5 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 5 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 18 марта (5 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 5 марта (ст.ст.) 18 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).