March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 7

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 21 (February 22 on leap years).

Saints

 * Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270-275)
 * Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (c. 304)
 * Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling water.
 * Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoning.
 * Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helena in Jerusalem (326)
 * Thomas of Cana, missionary in India (345).
 * Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Euboulos.
 * Saint Arkadios, Archbishop of Cyprus (527–565)
 * Venerable Hesychius the Wonderworker.  (see also: March 5)
 * The holy 42 Martyrs of Amorium (in Phrygia), including:
 * Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others, in Samarra (845)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Marcian of Tortona (120)
 * Saint Patrick of Avernia (ca. 307)
 * Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna in Italy for twenty years, 315-335 (335)
 * Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine (540)
 * Saints Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, female members of the Mercian royal family in 7th century England (c. 680)
 * Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (Balther), a priest in Lindisfarne in England who became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756)
 * Saint Chrodegang of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part in several Councils (766)
 * Saint Bilfrid (Billfrith), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th century)
 * Saint Cathróe of Metz (Cadroe, Cadroel) (976)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island, Solovki (1720)

Other commemorations

 * Translation to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229)
 * Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989)

Icons

 * "Chenstokhovskaya" (Poland) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Black Madonna of Częstochowa).
 * "Blessed Heaven" (Moscow) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
 * The Shestokhovsk ("Hearth"), or Sheltomezhsk, Icon of the Mother of God (18th century)