March 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 21

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 7.

Saints

 * Righteous Abel, first martyr in the history of mankind.
 * Martyrs Photina (Fatima, Svetlana), the Samaritan woman, martyred under Nero (c. 66), together with:
 * her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca (Kyriake);
 * her sons Victor (or Photinus) and Joses (Joseph);
 * Sebastian the Duke;
 * the officer Anatolius; and
 * Theoclitus, the former sorcerer.


 * Seven Virgin-martyrs of Amisus (Samsun) (c. 303-305):
 * Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia.


 * Martyr Akyla the Eparch, by the sword.
 * Martyr Emmanuel, by the sword.
 * Martyr Rodian, by the sword.
 * Martyr Lollian the Elder.
 * Hieromartyr Tadros, Bishop of Edessa, at Jerusalem (691)
 * Martyr Michael the Sabbaite, at Jerusalem (691)
 * Martyr Archil II (Archilios II), king of Georgia (744) (see also: June 21 )
 * The Venerable Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St. Sabbas (796):
 * Saints John, Sergius, Patrick, and others


 * Saint Nicetas the Confessor, Bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Urbitius, Bishop of Metz in the east of France (c. 420)
 * Saint Tetricus of Langres, Bishop of Langres and uncle of St Gregory of Tours (572)
 * Saint Martin of Braga in Iberia (580)
 * Venerable Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop (687)
 * Saint Herbert of Derwentwater, an Anglo-Saxon priest and friend of St Cuthbert, who lived as a hermit on St Herbert's Island (687)
 * Saint Wulfram of Sens, missionary, Bishop of Sens (703)
 * Saint Benignus, a monk and Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey (725)
 * Saint Remigius von Straßburg, a noble, became Abbot of Münster near Colmar in France and in 776 Bishop of Strasbourg (783)
 * Saint William of Peñacorada, monk at the monastery of Satagún in León in Spain (c. 1042)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Hieromartyr Euphrosynus of Blue-Jay Lake, Valaam, Novgorod Republic (1612)
 * New Martyr Myron of Mega Castro (Heraklion) in Crete (1793)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolov, Deacon (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Holz, priest of Novosiolki, Chełm and Podlasie, Poland (1944)