March 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 20 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – March 22

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 8.

Saints

 * Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy.  (see also: March 26)
 * Saint Maria the Martyr, in Perge.
 * Saint Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Egypt (c. 358)
 * Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th century) (see also: May 14)
 * Saint Sophronius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Theodosius, in Palestine (542)
 * Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople (610)
 * Venerable Jacob the Confessor (James the Confessor), Bishop, of the Studion (late 8th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Beryllus, Bishop of Catania (c. 90)
 * Saint Lupicinus of Condat, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains, Gaul (480)
 * Saint Enda of Aran, Abbot of Arranmore, monk, earliest leader of Irish monasticism (530)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (Michael of Soluneia), at Thessalonica (1544 or 1547)
 * Venerable Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vvedensky, Priest (1931)
 * New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeyevsky), Archbishop (1938)   (see also: October 10)

Other commemorations

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