March 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 15 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective March15 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first bishop of Britain (1st century)March 15/March 28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀριστόβουλος ὁ Ἀπόστολος Ἐπίσκοπος Βρετανίας. 15 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp.76-77.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ARISTOBULUS, M. (1ST CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 266. (see also: March 16) Martyrs Agapius, and with him seven martyrs (303):Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀγάπιος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ μαρτυρήσαντες. 15 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyr Agapius at Caesarea, in Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Publius (Pauplios); Timolaus; Romulus; two named Dionysius; and two named Alexander; at Caesarea in Palestine. Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (270-275)Hieromartyr Alexander of Side, in Pamphylia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyr Nicander of Egypt (305)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Νίκανδρος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. 15 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyr Nicander of Egypt. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. NICANDER, M. (ABOUT A.D. 302.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 267. Saint Hebarestes, steward of a church located in Jerusalem.March 28 / March 15. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

Pre-Schism Western saints

Martyr Mancius (5th or 6th century) Saint Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy (c. 555) Saint Probus of Rieti, Bishop of Rieti in central Italy (c. 571) Saint Zachariah, Pope of Rome (752)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ZACHARIAS, POPE. (A.D. 752.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 268-270. Saint Leocritia (Lucretia), a holy virgin in Cordoba in Spain (859)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Saint Nicander, monk, of Gorodetsk, Nizhni-Novgorod (1603) New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μανουὴλ ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Σφακίων. 15 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Hieromartyr Parthenios, Deacon, at Didymoteicho (1805)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Παρθένιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 15 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 15 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Alexis Vinogradov, Protopresbyter of Novotroitskoye, Tver (1938)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.22. New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest of Chimkent (1938) New Hieromartyr Michael Bogoslovsky, Protopresbyter of Simferopol-Crimea (1940)

Other commemorations

Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the earthquake of 1938.Great Synaxaristes: Μνήμη Σωτηρίας τῆς νήσου Λευκάδος. 15 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

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References

Sources March 15/March 28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). March 28 / March 15. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG). March 15. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 22. March 15. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 76–77. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 15 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 15 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 28 марта (15 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 15 марта (ст.ст.) 28 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).