March 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 4 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 March4 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Saint Julian of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria (189)March 4/March 17. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).March 17 / March 4. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana,Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Παῦλος καὶ Ἰουλιανὴ οἱ Μάρτυρες. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyr Paul and his sister. OCA - Lives of the Saints. and Quadratus, Acacius, and Stratonicus, at Ptolemais in Egypt (273)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀκάκιος, Κοδράτος καὶ Στρατόνικος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: August 17) Venerable Gerasimus of Jordan (475)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ὁ Ἰορδανίτης. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Gerasimus of the Jordan. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Gregory of Constantius in Cyprus, Bishop.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Κωνσταντίας τῆς Κύπρου. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Jacob the Faster, of Phoenicia, Syria (6th century)St James the Faster of Phoenicia, Syria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. 4 марта (ст.ст.) 17 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Lucius I, succeeded St Cornelius as Pope of Rome in 253, and was at once sent into exile.March 4. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. LUCIUS, POPE, M. (A.D. 253.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 55-57.Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article VI.—Feast of St. Lucius, Pope and Martyr. [Third Century.]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 114-115. Martyrs of Rome, a group of nine hundred martyrs buried in the Catacombs of Callistus on the Appian Way in Rome (260) Saint Leonard of Avranches, Bishop of Avranches (ca. 614) Saint Owen (Owin), a monk at Lastingham in England with St Chad, then settled at a monastery near Lichfield (ca. 680)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. OWEN, MK. (END OF 7TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 57-58.Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article IV.—St. Owen or Owini, Monk, at Lichfield, England. [Seventh Century.]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. p. 114. Saint Basinus, monk and Abbot of St Maximin in Trier in Germany, succeeded St Numerian as bishop of the city (ca. 705)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. BASINUS, B. OF TREVES. (ABOUT A.D. 672.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 59. Saint Appian, a monk at the monastery of St Peter of Ciel d'Oro in Pavia, became a hermit in Comacchio and brought Christ to that region (ca. 800) Saint Adrian of May and Companions, a bishop on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth in Scotland, martyred by the Danes together with other monks (ca. 875)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article II.—St. Adrian and his Companions, Martyrs, in the Island of May, Scotland. [Ninth Century.]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 111-113. Saint Felix of Rhuys, a monk at Fleury Abbey (Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire) in France (1038)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Saint Gregory, Bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἄσσου. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Gerasimus, monk of Vologda, founder of the Holy Trinity Monastery (1178)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ἐκ Ρωσίας. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Gerasimus of Vologda. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Blessed Basil (Basilko), Prince of Rostov (1238)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος βασιλεὺς Ροστὼβ τῆς Ρωσίας. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Right-believing Prince Basil (Vasilko) of Rostov. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saints of Pskov martyred by the Latins:Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Βασίλειος καὶ Ἰωάσαφ οἱ Ὁσιομάρτυρες. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Joasaph of Snetogorsk, Pskov. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Ioasaph of Snetogorsk Monastery, and St. Basil of Mirozh Monastery (1299) Saint Daniel of Moscow, Great Prince (1303)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Δανιὴλ ὁ Πρίγκιπας. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Right-believing Prince Daniel of Moscow. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Peter (Michurin), youth of Tobolsk (Peter of Tomsk) (1820)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.

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Michael Kargopolov, Priest of Krasnoyarsk (1919) New Hieromartyr Dimitry Ivanov of Kiev, Archpriest (1933) New Hieromartyr Vyacheslav Leontiev of Nizhegorod, Priest (1937) New Martyr John of Al-Sindiyana, Palestine (1937) New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

Translation of the relics (938) of Martyr Wenceslaus (Vaclav), Prince of the Czechs (935)Great Synaxaristes: Μετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Βιασεσλάβου Πρίγκιπα τῆς Ρωσίας. 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Right-believing Prince Wenceslaus of the Czech Lands. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Glinsk Hermitage (1893) Repose of Schema-Nun Agnia, Eldress of Karaganda (1976)

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References

Sources March 4/March 17. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). March 17 / March 4. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). March 4. 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 4. 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. 65. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 4 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 4 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 17 марта (4 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 4 марта (ст.ст.) 17 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).