Orthodox Calendar
March 2025
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1

Fast—Meat Fast

  • Commemoration of Departed Righteous Monastics
  • Martyr Pamphylius and His Companions

2

Fast—Meat Fast

  • Sunday of Cheesefare: Expulsion of Adam from Paradise
  • Forgiveness Sunday
  • Greatmartyr Theodore Tyro
  • Hieromartyr Germogen, Patriarch of Moscow

3

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Great Canon
  • Beginning of the Great Fast
  • St Leo the Great, Pope of Rome

4

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Great Canon
  • Apostles of the Seventy Archippus and Philemon
  • Our Venerable Mother Philothea of Athens (1589)

5

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Great Canon; Presanctified Liturgy
  • St Leo, Bishop of Catania
  • St Bessarion the Great, wonder-worker of Egypt (466)
  • Thirty-four Holy Martyrs of the Monastery of Valaam (1578)

6

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Great Canon
  • Ven. Timothy of Symbola
  • St Eustathius, archbishop of Antioch (337)
  • St John the Scholastic, patriarch of Constantinople (577)
  • Saint Zachariah, Patriarch of Jerusalem (632)

7

Lenten Fast—No overrides

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Unc. Rel. Holy Martyrs at Gate of Eugenius

8

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • St Theodore Tyro (the Recruit)
  • Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna
  • Saint Gorgonia (372)
  • Our Venerable Father Alexander the Unsleeping (430)

9

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • First Sunday of Lent
  • Sunday of Orthodoxy
  • 1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist
  • Saint Aethelberht (Ethelbert), first Christian King of Kent (616)

10

Lenten Fast

  • St Tarasius, Abp. of Constantinople

11

Lenten Fast

  • St Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza
  • St Photini the Samaritan Woman, and those with her (66)

12

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • St Raphael Bishop of Brooklyn
  • Our Holy Father Procopius of Decapolis (9th c.)
  • Our Venerable Father Titus of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves (1190)
  • Our Holy Father Leander, Bishop of Seville and Apostle of Spain (600)

13

Lenten Fast

  • Ven. Basil the Confessor
  • Blessed Nicholas of Pskov, fool for Christ (1576)

14

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Martyr Eudoxia of Heliopolis

15

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Memorial Saturday
  • Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia
  • St Arseny, Bishop of Tver
  • The Four Hundred and Forty Martyrs of Lombardy (579)
  • Holy Martyr Euthalia (257)

16

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Second Sunday of Lent
  • St Gregory Palamas
  • Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus
  • An Unknown Girl in Alexandria (?)

17

Lenten Fast

  • Ven. Gerasimus of the Jordan
  • Rt. Blv. Prince Daniel of Moscow
  • St James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th c.)

18

Lenten Fast

  • Martyr Conon of Isauria
  • St Mark of Athens (4th c.)
  • St Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)

19

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Forty-two Martyrs of Ammoria

20

Lenten Fast

  • Seven Hieromartyrs of Cherson

21

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • St Theophylactus, Bishop of Nicomedia
  • Hieromartyr Theodoretus (362)

22

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Memorial Saturday
  • Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
  • St Caesarius (369)

23

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Third Sunday of Lent
  • Veneration of the Precious Cross
  • Martyr Quadratus and Companions
  • Our Holy Mother Anastasia (563)

24

Lenten Fast

  • St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem
  • St Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod
  • St Sophronios, patriarch of Jerusalem (638)
  • St John Moschos, author of the Spiritual Meadow (622)
  • Holy Martyr Pionius (250)

25

Lenten Fast

  • Ven. Theophanes the Confessor
  • St Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), Pope of Rome (604)
  • Repose of St Symeon the New Theologian (1021)

26

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Trans. Rel. Nicephorus, Patr. Constantinopole

27

Lenten Fast

  • Ven. Benedict of Nursia
  • St Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)

28

Lenten Fast

  • Presanctified Liturgy
  • Martyr Agapius and Seven with Him
  • Holy Martyr Alexander (270-275)

29

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Memorial Saturday
  • Martyr Sabinas of Egypt
  • Our Holy Father Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos (1111)
  • Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Britain (1st c.)

30

Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Fourth Sunday of Lent
  • St John Climacus
  • Ven. Alexius the Man of God
  • Ven. Makary of Kalyazinsk
  • St Alexis, the Man of God (411)
  • St Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (ca. 461)

31

Lenten Fast

  • St Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem
  • Rep. St Nikolaj of Zhicha
  • St Ananias (Aninus) the Wonderworker (?)
  • Saint Nikolai (Velimirovic), Bishop of Ochrid and Zica, Serbia (1956)(March 5 OC)