March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 4 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 6

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 20 (February 21 on leap years).

Saints

 * Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st century)
 * Martyr Nestor, father of Martyr Conon of Isauria.
 * Martyr Onisius (Onesimus) of Isauria, by beheading (1st century)
 * Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (200)
 * Martyr Conon the Gardener, of Pamphylia (251)
 * Martyrs Archelaus, Kyrillos, Photios, Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoë, and 152 Martyrs in Egypt (ca. 308)
 * Venerable Conon of Cyprus (4th century)
 * Martyr Eulogius of Palestine.
 * Martyr Eulampius of Palestine, by the sword.
 * Venerable Mark the Ascetic of Egypt (Mark the Athenian, Mark the Faster) (5th century)
 * Saint Hesychius the Faster, of Bithynia (790)  (see also: March 6)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Oliva of Brescia, martyred in Brescia in the north of Italy, under the Emperor Hadrian (138)
 * Saint Eusebius, born in Cremona in Italy, he became an abbot in Bethlehem and took part in the struggle against Origenism.
 * Saint Eusebius and Companions, a group of ten martyrs who suffered in North Africa.
 * Saint Piran (Pyran, Kerrian), monk of Perranporth (c. 480)


 * Saint Colman of Armagh, a disciple of St Patrick in Ireland (5th century)
 * Saint Kieran of Saighir (Ciaran, Sen-Chiaráin = the Elder Ciarán), Munster (c. 530)
 * Saint Carthage the Elder, the successor of St Kieran as Bishop of Ossory in Ireland (ca. 540)
 * Saint Caron, the church at Tregaron in Dyfed in Wales is dedicated to him.
 * Saint Virgilius of Arles, Archbishop of Arles (610)
 * Saint Clement, Abbot of Santa Lucia in Syracuse in Sicily (ca. 800)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl.
 * Monk-martyr Adrian, Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550), and his fellow-ascetic St. Leonidas (1549)
 * New Martyr John the Bulgarian, at Constantinople (1784)
 * New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805)  (see also: March 15 - Greek)
 * New Martyr George of Rapsani, at Larissa (1818)
 * Saint Nikolai (Velimirovich), Bishop of Ohrid and Žiča, Serbia (1956)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pokrovsky (1919)
 * New Hieromartyr John Mirotvortsiev (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Theophan (Grafov), Hierodeacon, of Borisoglebsk Monastery, Vladimir (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Mardarius (Isaev), Hieromonk, of Yurievskoe, Yaroslavl, (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God "the Teacher" (or "Education" or "Nurtured Up-Bringing").
 * Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299), and his children Saints David (1321) and Constantine (c. 1322)
 * Repose of Metropolitan Cornelius of Novgorod (1698)