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March 7 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 March7 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Martyrs Codratus (Quadratus), Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259)March 7/March 20. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). (see also: May 7) Martyrs Aemilian the Roman, and Jacob (James) and Marianos with him, under Valerian (259)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Αἰμιλιανός, Ἰάκωβος καὶ Μαριανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρες. 7 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathadorus (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀγαθόδωρος, Αἰθέριος, Βασιλέας, Ἐλπίδιος, Εὐγένιος, Ἐφραὶμ καὶ Καπίτων οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες. 7 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Hieromartyr Basil of Cherson. OCA - Feasts and Saints. Venerable Paul the Simple, of Egypt (ca. 339), disciple of St. Anthony the Great.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ Ἁπλὸς. 7 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Paul the Simple and Disciple of the Venerable Anthony the Great. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. PAUL THE SIMPLE, H. (4TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 114-115. Saints Nestor and Arcadius, Bishops of Tremithous, in Cyprus (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀρκάδιος καὶ Νέστορας Ἐπίσκοποι Τριμυθοῦντος Κύπρου. 7 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Ephraim of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch (545)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐφραὶμ Πατριάρχης Ἀντιόχειας. 7 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Plousias in Bithynia (ca. 840)March 20 / March 7. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).St Paul the Confessor the Bishop of Plusias in Bithynia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Felicity, Saturus (Satyrus), Saturninus, Revocatus and Secundulus at Carthage (202-203)March 7. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. PERPETUA, FELICITAS, AND COMP., MM. (A.D. 203.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 102-113.Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article III.—Festival of St. Felicitas and of St. Perpetua, Martyrs, at Carthage. [Second and Third Centuries]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 208-209. (see also: February 1 - East.) Saint Gaudiosus of Brescia, Confessor and Bishop of Brescia in Italy, where his relics were venerated (445) Saint Enodoch (Wenedoc), a saint in Wales (ca. 520) Saint Drausinus (Drausius), Bishop of Soissons, did much to encourage monasticism (ca. 576) Saint Deifer, founder of Bodfari in Clwyd in Wales (6th century) Saint Emilian, monk, of Italia (6th century)St Emilian of Rome. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Eosterwine, the second Anglo-Saxon Abbot of Wearmouth in Northumbria (688) Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Ἐπίσκοπος Ὑόρκης. 7 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: May 7) Saint Ardo Smaragdus, a hagiographer, abbot of the monastery of Aniane (843)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Venerable Laurence (Lavrentios of Megara), founder of the monastery of the Mother of God Phaneromeni on Salamis Island (1707)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Λαυρέντιος ἐκ Μεγάρων. 7 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Dandus (Dandas) and All Saints of Thrace.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.20.

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest (1930) New Hieromartyr Nilus (Tyutyukin), Hieromonk of St. Joseph of Volokolamsk Monastery (1938) Virgin-martyrs Matrona, Mary, Eudocia, Ecaterina, Antonina, Nadezhda, Xenia, and Anna (1938)

Other commemorations

Synaxis of the Saints of the Dodecanese. Σύναξις των εν Δωδεκανήσω Αγίων. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. 07/03/2013. Repose of Schemamonk Sisoes of Valaam (1931)

Icons

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety of Sinners" in Korets (1622), Odrin (1843)Icon of the Mother of God "the Surety of sinners" of Odrino, Orlov. OCA - Lives of the Saints. and Moscow (1848).Icon of the Mother of God “the Surety of sinners” in Moscow. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Great Synaxaristes: Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου «τῆς τῶν Ἁμαρτωλῶν Ἐγγυήσεως» ἐν Ρωσίᾳ. 7 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also May 29) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Czestochowa". (see also" March 6)

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References

Sources March 7/March 20. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). March 20 / March 7. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). March 7. 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. 20. March 7. 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. 68–69. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 7 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 7 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 20 марта (7 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 7 марта (ст.ст.) 20 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).