March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 25

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 11.

Feasts

 * Forefeast of the Annunciation.

Saints

 * Saint Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia in Pisidia (1st century)
 * Hieromartyr Artemon, presbyter of Laodicea (284-305) (see also: April 12, April 13)
 * Martyr Timolaus and 7 Companions with him (8 Martyrs), in Caesarea Palaestina, by beheading (305)
 * Venerable Zachariah the Recluse, of Egypt (4th century)
 * Venerable Martin of the Thebaid, monk.
 * Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros, ascetic.
 * Saint Thomas, Abbot of the monastery of St. Euthymius (542)
 * Venerable Jacob of Catania (James the Confessor), Bishop of Catania (c. 730)
 * Saint Severus of Catania, Bishop of Catania (c. 812)

Pre-schism Western saints

 * Saint Flavius Latinus of Brescia, third Bishop of Brescia in Italy (84-115)
 * Martyrs Romulus and Secundus, brothers, in Mauritania (Barbary), who suffered for the faith of Christ.
 * Saint Pigmenius, a priest in Rome thrown into the Tiber under Julian the Apostate (362)
 * Saint Domangard (Donard), patron of Maghera in Co. Down in Ireland, who lived as a hermit on the mountain now called Slieve-Donard after him (c. 500)
 * Saint Macartan (Macartin, Maccarthen, Mac Cairthinn of Clogher), an early disciple and companion of St Patrick of Ireland, who consecrated him Bishop of Clogher (c. 505)
 * Saint Cairlon (Caorlan, Carláen), an abbot in Ireland who became Archbishop of Armagh (588)
 * Saint Caimin of Inis Cealtra (Holy Island) on Lough Derg, Bishop-Abbot of Inis Cealtra and possibly the first Bishop of Killaloe (653)   (see also: March 25 )
 * Saint Hildelith, Abbess of Barking Abbey (c. 712)

Post-schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Zachariah, Faster of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
 * Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan (1552)
 * New Hieromartyr Parthenius III, Patriarch of Constantinople (1657)
 * Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947)  (see also: March 25 or April 7; fifth Sunday of Great Lent)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pankin, Priest, of Chimkent (1920)

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "The Clouded Mountain" (also "the Uncut Mount" or "Smoky Mountain"), in Tver.
 * Commemoration of the miracle at the Kiev Caves Lavra.