Eastern Orthodox Liturgics March 20

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 7.

• Righteous Abel, first martyr in the history of mankind.
• Martyrs Photina (Fatima, Svetlana), the Samaritan woman, martyred under Nero (c. 66), together with:

• her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca (Kyriake);
• her sons Victor (or Photinus) and Joses (Joseph);
• Sebastian the Duke;
• the officer Anatolius; and
• Theoclitus, the former sorcerer.

• Seven Virgin-martyrs of Amisus (Samsun) (c. 303-305):

• Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia.

• Martyr Akyla the Eparch, by the sword.
• Martyr Emmanuel, by the sword.
• Martyr Rodian, by the sword.
• Martyr Lollian the Elder.
• Hieromartyr Tadros, Bishop of Edessa, at Jerusalem (691)
• Martyr Michael the Sabbaite, at Jerusalem (691)
• Martyr Archil II (Archilios II), king of Georgia (744) (see also: June 21)
• The Venerable Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St. Sabbas (796):

• Saints John, Sergius, Patrick, and others

• Saint Nicetas the Confessor, Bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813)

• Saint Urbitius, Bishop of Metz in the east of France (c. 420)
• Saint Tetricus of Langres, Bishop of Langres and uncle of St Gregory of Tours (572)
• Saint Martin of Braga in Iberia (580)
• Venerable Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop (687)
• Saint Herbert of Derwentwater, an Anglo-Saxon priest and friend of St Cuthbert, who lived as a hermit on St Herbert's Island (687)
• Saint Wulfram of Sens, missionary, Bishop of Sens (703)
• Saint Benignus, a monk and Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey (725)
• Saint Remigius von Straßburg, a noble, became Abbot of Münster near Colmar in France and in 776 Bishop of Strasbourg (783)
• Saint William of Peñacorada, monk at the monastery of Satagún in León in Spain (c. 1042)

• New Hieromartyr Euphrosynus of Blue-Jay Lake, Valaam, Novgorod Republic (1612)
• New Martyr Myron of Mega Castro (Heraklion) in Crete (1793)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolov, Deacon (1938)
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Holz, priest of Novosiolki, Chełm and Podlasie, Poland (1944)

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  St. Martin of Braga (10th-century manuscript).
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  Venerable Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (11th-century fresco).