March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 23

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 9.

Saints

 * Virgin-confessor Drosida (Drosis) of Antioch, daughter of Emperor Trajan, and with her five Virgin-martyrs (104-117)  (see also: July 28)
 * Martyrs Kalliniki and Vasilissa of Rome (252)
 * Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra, Priest of Ancyra (362)
 * Saint Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383) (see also: May 30)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Epaphroditus, by tradition the first Bishop of Terracina in Italy (1st century)
 * Saint Paul, Bishop of Narbonne, Brittany (3rd century)
 * Saint Lea of Rome, an aristocrat in Rome who on the death of her husband entered the convent of St Marcella (384)
 * Saint Deogratius, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (457)
 * Saint Octavian and Companions, Archdeacon of the Church in Carthage in North Africa, martyred with several thousand companions under the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (484)
 * Saint Saturninus and Companions, a group of ten martyrs in North Africa.
 * Saint Trien (Trienan), a disciple of St Patrick and Abbot of Killelga in Ireland (5th century)
 * Saint Darerca of Ireland, sister of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)
 * Saint Fáilbe mac Pípáin, the eighth Abbot of Iona in Scotland (680)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker (1602)   (see also: June 6 and May 10 - Translation of Relics)
 * New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Dimitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava (1930)
 * New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia (Grineva) of Kiev (1941), and her priest Demetrius Ivanov (1934)

Other commemorations

 * "The Izborsk" Icon of the Mother of God (1657)
 * Commemoration of Maria Berushko of Brazil and eight students who died trying to save people during a fire in their school (1986)