March 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 5

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 19 (February 20 on leap years).

Saints

 * Saint Julian of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria (189)
 * Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius, and Stratonicus, at Ptolemais in Egypt (273)  (see also: August 17)
 * Venerable Gerasimus of Jordan (475)
 * Saint Gregory of Constantius in Cyprus, Bishop.
 * Saint James the Faster, of Phoenicia, Syria (6th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Lucius I, succeeded St Cornelius as Pope of Rome in 253, and was at once sent into exile.
 * Martyrs of Rome, a group of nine hundred martyrs buried in the Catacombs of Callistus on the Appian Way in Rome (260)
 * Saint Leonard of Avranches, Bishop of Avranches (ca. 614)
 * Saint Owen (Owin), a monk at Lastingham in England with St Chad, then settled at a monastery near Lichfield (ca. 680)
 * Saint Basinus, monk and Abbot of St Maximin in Trier in Germany, succeeded St Numerian as bishop of the city (ca. 705)
 * Saint Appian, a monk at the monastery of St Peter of Ciel d'Oro in Pavia, became a hermit in Comacchio and brought Christ to that region (ca. 800)
 * Saint Adrian of May and Companions, a bishop on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth in Scotland, martyred by the Danes together with other monks (ca. 875)
 * Saint Felix of Rhuys, a monk at Fleury Abbey (Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire) in France (1038)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Gregory, Bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150)
 * Venerable Gerasimus, monk of Vologda, founder of the Holy Trinity Monastery (1178)
 * Blessed Basil (Basilko), Prince of Rostov (1238)
 * Saints of Pskov martyred by the Latins:
 * Saint Ioasaph of Snetogorsk Monastery, and St. Basil of Mirozh Monastery (1299)


 * Saint Daniel of Moscow, Great Prince (1303)
 * Saint Peter (Michurin), youth of Tobolsk (Peter of Tomsk) (1820)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Michael Kargopolov, Priest of Krasnoyarsk (1919)
 * New Hieromartyr Dimitry Ivanov of Kiev, Archpriest (1933)
 * New Hieromartyr Vyacheslav Leontiev of Nizhegorod, Priest (1937)
 * New Martyr John of Al-Sindiyana, Palestine (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics (938) of Martyr Wenceslaus (Vaclav), Prince of the Czechs (935)
 * Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Glinsk Hermitage (1893)
 * Repose of Schema-Nun Agnia, Eldress of Karaganda (1976)