March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 10

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 24 (February 25 on leap years).

Saints

 * Martyr Urpasian the Senator, at Nicomedia, by being burned alive (c. 305)
 * The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320):
 * Cyrion (or Quirio), Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus, Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John, Xanthias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angus, Aetius, Flavius, Acacius, Ecdicius, Lysimachus, Alexander, Elias, Gorgonius, Theophilus, Dometian, Gaius, Leontius, Athanasius, Cyril, Sacerdon, Nicholas, Valerius, Philoctimon, Severian, Chudion, Aglaius, and Meliton.


 * Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus (Caesarios the Doctor), brother of St. Gregory the Theologian (369)
 * Saint Philoromus the Confessor, of Galatia (4th century)
 * Righteous Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia. (see also March 8 and May 7)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Pacianus, Bishop of Barcelona (390)
 * Saint Constantine of Cornwall and Govan (576) (see also: March 11 )


 * Saint Bosa of York, Bishop of York (705)
 * Venerable Vitalis of Castronovo, Sicily (994)
 * Saint Anthony, a monk at Luxeuil in France, became a hermit in Froidemont in Franche-Comté (10th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Jonah, archbishop of Novgorod (1470)
 * New Martyrs (two priests and forty students) of Momišići, Montenegro (1688)
 * Saint Theodosius Levitsky, priest of Balta, Odessa (1845)
 * Saint Dimitra (Ihorova), nun and foundress of the Vvedensk (Vovedenska) Convent in Kiev (1878)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Mitrophan Buchnoff, Archpriest, of Voronezh (1931)
 * New Hieromartyr Joasaph (Shakhov), Abbot, of Popovka (Moscow) (1938)
 * New Hieromartyrs (1938):
 * Michael Maslov, Alexis Smirnov, Demetrius Glivenko, Sergius Lebedev, Sergius Zvetkov, Priests;
 * Nicholas Goryunov, Protodeacon.


 * Virgin-martyrs Natalia Yulianova and Alexandra Samoylovoy (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Translation to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229)
 * "Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("The Word Was Made Flesh") (1666)
 * Repose of Elder Cleopas of Ostrov-Vvedensky Monastery (1778)
 * Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Theophilus (Rossokha) of Kiev (1996)