March 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 29 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 31

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 12 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For March 30th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 17.

Saints

• Prophet Joad (III Kings 13:11), who dwelt in Bethel (10th century BC)^[1][2][3]
• Holy Apostles Sosthenes,^[4] Apollos,^[5] Cephas,^[6] Caesar,^[7] and Epaphroditus,^[8] of the Seventy (1st century)^[1][2] (see also: December 8 and January 4)
• Saint Eubula, mother of St. Panteleimon (304)^{[1][2][9][10]}
• Venerable John the Hermit of Cilicia (4th century)^{[1][11][note 2]}
• Saint John II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (5th century)^[1][9][12]
• Venerable John the Silent (John Hesychastes), Bishop of Colonia (Taxara) in Armenia, and later a monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (558)^[1][2][13] (see also: December 3)
• Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent (615)^{[1][9][14][15][16]}
• Venerable Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662)^{[1][2][17][18][note 3]} (see also: January 21)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Quirinus, the jailer of Pope Alexander I, martyr (c. 117)^{[19][20][note 4]}
• Saint Regulus (Rieul), by tradition a Greek, he is honoured as the first Bishop of Senlis in France (c. 260)^[19][21][22]
• Saint Mamertinus of Auxerre, a monk and then Abbot of Sts Cosmas and Damian in Auxerre in France (c. 462)^[19]
• Saint Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick in Ireland (6th century)^[19][23]
• Saint Pastor, Bishop of Orleans in France (6th century)^[19]
• Saint Tola of Clonard, Abbot and Bishop of Disert Tola in Meath in Ireland (c. 733)^[19][24]
• Saint Patto (Pacificus), Bishop of Werden in Germany (c. 788)^{[19][25][note 5]}
• Saint Clinius, a Greek monk of Monte Cassino, he became Abbot of St Peter's near Pontecorvo, where his relics were venerated.^[19]
• Saint Osburga of Coventry, Abbess and Virgin (c. 1015)^{[1][19][26][note 6]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• New Hieromartyr Zachariah, Metropolitan of Corinth (1684)^[1][9][27]
• Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk (1771)^{[1][28][29][note 7]}
• Saint Gabriel (Bănulescu-Bodoni), Metropolitan of Kishinev and Khotin, Moldova (1821)^[1]

Other commemorations

• The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth (1st century)^[30]
• Translation of the relicts of the Martyr-King Edmund of East Anglia.^[31]
• Repose of Blessed Matrona (Mylnikova) the Barefoot, of St. Petersburg, Fool for Christ (1911)^{[1][note 8]}

Icon gallery

• 
  Prophet Joel, Russian icon, 18th century.
• 
  Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, and Epaphroditus, of the Seventy.
• 
  St. John the Silent, Menologion of Basil II.
• 
  St. John Climacus is shown at the top of The Ladder of Divine Ascent, 12th-century icon.
• 
  St. Tola's Cross at Dysert O'Dea Monastery.
• 
  Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk.
• 
  St Gabriel (Bănulescu-Bodoni).

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. According to the Greek Synaxarion, the Venerable John fled to the Egyptian desert due to the persecution against the Christians. He lived in a dry well, where he was fed by the ascetics of the desert. He passed his life in prayer and fasting, and reposed in peace.^[11]
3. "At the age of seven he was taken to the monastery of Santa Lucia near Syracuse in Sicily. After thirty years as a monk, he was successively made abbot and bishop of the city. He reposed at the age of ninety."^[19]
4. The jailer of Pope Alexander I, by whom he was converted with his daughter St Balbina. Shortly afterwards he was martyred in Rome under Hadrian.
5. Perhaps born in Ireland, he went to Saxony, became abbot of a monastery there and finally became Bishop of Werden in Germany.
6. First abbess of the convent founded by King Canute in Coventry in England.
7. See also: (in Russian) Софроний (Кристалевский). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
8. (in Russian) Матронушка-босоножка (Матрена Петровна Мыльникова)(1814 — † 30.03.1911).