March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 23

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For March 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 9.

Saints

• Virgin-confessor Drosida (Drosis) of Antioch, daughter of Emperor Trajan, and with her five Virgin-martyrs (104-117)^[1][2][3] (see also: July 28)
• Martyrs Kalliniki and Vasilissa of Rome (252)^[1][4]
• Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra, Priest of Ancyra (362)^[1][5][6][7]
• Saint Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383)^[1][8] (see also: May 30)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Epaphroditus, by tradition the first Bishop of Terracina in Italy (1st century)^{[9][note 2]}
• Saint Paul, Bishop of Narbonne, Brittany (3rd century)^{[1][9][10][note 3]}
• Saint Lea of Rome, an aristocrat in Rome who on the death of her husband entered the convent of St Marcella (384)^[9]
• Saint Deogratius, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (457)^[9][12]
• Saint Octavian and Companions, Archdeacon of the Church in Carthage in North Africa, martyred with several thousand companions under the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (484)^[9]
• Saint Saturninus and Companions, a group of ten martyrs in North Africa.^[9]
• Saint Trien (Trienan), a disciple of St Patrick and Abbot of Killelga in Ireland (5th century)^[9][13]
• Saint Darerca of Ireland, sister of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)^{[9][14][note 4]}
• Saint Fáilbe mac Pípáin, the eighth Abbot of Iona in Scotland (680)^{[9][15][note 5]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker (1602)^{[1][16][17][note 6][note 7]} (see also: June 6 and May 10 - Translation of Relics)
• New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Dimitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)^[1][19][20]

New martyrs and confessors

• Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava (1930)^{[21][note 8]}
• New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia (Grineva) of Kiev (1941),^[1][22] and her priest Demetrius Ivanov (1934)^[21][23]

Other commemorations

• "The Izborsk" Icon of the Mother of God (1657)^[21]
• Commemoration of Maria Berushko of Brazil and eight students who died trying to save people during a fire in their school (1986)^[24]

Icon gallery

• 
  Saint Epaphroditus.
• 
  Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra.
• 
  Saint Isaac the Confessor.
• 
  Saint Lea of Rome.
• 
  Basil of Caesarea and Basil of Mangazeya.
• 
  Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. He may have been one of the Seventy Apostles and mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Philippians 2:25), commemorated on March 30.
3. "AT Narbonne, in France, the birthday of the bishop St. Paul, a disciple of the Apostles. He is said to have been the proconsul Sergius Paulus, who was baptized by the blessed Apostle Paul, and left at Narbonne, where he was raised to the episcopal dignity when the apostle went to Spain. Having zealously discharged the office of preaching and performed miracles, he departed for heaven."^[11]
4. She is reputed to have had fifteen sons, some ten of whom became bishops.
5. He came from Ireland and was the brother of St Finan of Rath.
6. See: (in Russian) Василий Мангазейский. Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.
7. (in Russian) "Сначала днем памяти святого было 22 марта, когда святая Церковь вспоминала соименного ему священномученика Василия Анкирского. В последующее время память блаженного Василия стала совершаться и 10 мая — в память о перенесении его мощей из Мангазеи. Ранее память святому совершалась в монастыре еще и 6 июня, день явления его мощей (по другим источникам, кончина св. Мученика Василия Мангазейского приходится на 4 апреля 1602 года).^[18]
8. See: (in Russian) Василий (Зеленцов). Википедии. Russian Wikipedia.