March 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 13

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 27 (February 28 on leap years).

Saints

 * Righteous Aaron the High Priest, brother of Prophet Moses the God-seer (c. 1530 BC)
 * Righteous Phineas, grandson of Aaron (ca. 1500 BC)  (see also: September 2)
 * Holy Nine Martyrs in the Persian Empire.


 * Saint Cyrus (Abba-Cyr), monk of Alexandria (6th century)
 * Saint Gregory the Dialogist, Pope of Rome (604)    (see also: September 3)
 * Venerable Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane (818)
 * Venerable Saints Symeon the New Theologian (1022), and his elder, Symeon the Studite (Symeon the Reverent, the Pious), of the Studion (987)  (see also: October 12)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyr Mamilian (Maximilian), in Rome.
 * Martyr Maximilian of Tebessa, in Thebeste in Numidia, for refusing military service (295)
 * Saint Paul Aurelian (Paul de Léon), Bishop of Léon in Brittany, Confessor (572)
 * Saint Peter the Deacon, disciple, secretary and companion of St Gregory the Great, and patron-saint of Salussola in Italy (ca. 605)
 * Saint Mura McFeredach (Muran, Murames), Abbot of Fahan in County Donegal, patron-saint of Fahan where his cross still stands (ca. 645)
 * Saint Alphege (Ælfheah the Elder, Ælfheah the Bald), Bishop of Winchester, England (951)
 * Saint Nicodemus of Mammola in Calabria (990)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Lawrence the Martyr (Lavrentios), one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century)
 * Martyr Demetrius the Devoted, King of Georgia (1289)
 * Saint Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (monk Theoctistus Dragutin), (1316)
 * Saint Kiril Peychinovich (1845)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Saint Alexander Derzhavin, Priest, Confessor (1933)
 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir (Volkov), Archimandrite of Islavskoe (Moscow) (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr John Plekhanov, Priest (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Sergius Skvortsov, Priest (1943)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Not-Made-by-Hands" (on the Pillar) at Lydda.
 * Repose of Schema-monk Anthony the Gorge-dweller, of Zelenchug Monastery in Kuban (1908)
 * Restoration of the Autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church (1917)