March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 24

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 5 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 10.

Saints

 * Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius (Bogolep), the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125) (see also: March 27)
 * Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)
 * Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361) (see also: October 30)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Victorian, Frumentius and Companions (484)
 * Saint Gwinear of Cornwall (5th century)
 * Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th century)
 * Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North Africa.
 * Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th century)
 * Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy, miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550)
 * Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne for twelve years (699)
 * Saint Felix of Montecassino (ca. 1000)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Nicon, abbot of the Kiev Caves (1088)
 * Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
 * Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384)
 * Saint Bassian, Archbishop of Rostov (1481)
 * Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Totma, Russia (1568) (see also: January 28)
 * Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1602) (see also: March 22; and June 6, May 10 - Translation of Relics)
 * New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802)
 * New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820) (see also: April 5)
 * Saint Elena (Bakhteiv), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Macarius Kvitkin, Protopresbyter of Orenburg (1931)
 * New Hieromartyr Elijah (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Vladimir (1938)
 * New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklyn, and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938)
 * New Martyr James (1938)
 * Virgin-martyr Anastasia Bobkova (1938)
 * Martyr Alexis Skorobogatov (1938)
 * New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Elder Porphyrius of Glinsk Hermitage (1868)