March 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 30 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 March30 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Prophet Joad (III Kings 13:11), who dwelt in Bethel (10th century BC)March 30/April 12. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). 30 марта (ст.ст.) 12 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).Prophet Joad. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Holy Apostles Sosthenes,Apostle Sosthenes of the Seventy. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Apollos,Apostle Apollos of the Seventy. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Cephas,Apostle Cephas of the Seventy. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Caesar,Apostle Caesar of the Seventy. OCA - Lives of the Saints. and Epaphroditus,Apostle Epaphroditus of the Seventy. OCA - Lives of the Saints. of the Seventy (1st century) (see also: December 8 and January 4) Saint Eubula, mother of St. Panteleimon (304) Συναξαριστής. 30 Μαρτίου . ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).St Euboula the Mother of St Panteleimon. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable John the Hermit of Cilicia (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἀσκητὴς. 30 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint John II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (5th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων. 30 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable John the Silent (John Hesychastes), Bishop of Colonia (Taxara) in Armenia, and later a monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (558)Venerable John the Silent of St Sava’s Monastery. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: December 3) Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent (615)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος. 30 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, Author of “the Ladder”. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. JOHN CLIMACUS, AB. (A.D. 606.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 506-508. Venerable Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662)St Zosimus the Bishop of Syracuse. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ZOSIMUS B. OF SYRACUSE. (ABOUT A.D. 660.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 508-512. (see also: January 21)

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Quirinus, the jailer of Pope Alexander I, martyr (c. 117)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. QUIRINUS THE TRIBUNE, M. (A.D. 130.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 504. Saint Regulus (Rieul), by tradition a Greek, he is honoured as the first Bishop of Senlis in France (c. 260)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article V.—St. Regulus, or St. Rule, Patron of St. Andrew's, Scotland. [Said to be of the Fourth Century, but, probably, he lived at a later period]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 1021-1025.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. REGULUS, B. OF ARLES AND SENLIS. (4TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 504-506. Saint Mamertinus of Auxerre, a monk and then Abbot of Sts Cosmas and Damian in Auxerre in France (c. 462) Saint Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick in Ireland (6th century)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article II.—St. Fergus or Fergussius, Bishop of Downpatrick. [Sixth Century]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 1011-1014. Saint Pastor, Bishop of Orleans in France (6th century) Saint Tola of Clonard, Abbot and Bishop of Disert Tola in Meath in Ireland (c. 733)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "ARTICLE I.—ST. TOLA, ABBOT AND BISHOP OF DISERT TOLA. [SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 1008-1011. Saint Patto (Pacificus), Bishop of Werden in Germany (c. 788)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article III.—St. Patto, Abbot of Amarbaric, and Bishop of Verden, in Saxony. [Eighth and Ninth Centuries]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 1014-1016. Saint Clinius, a Greek monk of Monte Cassino, he became Abbot of St Peter's near Pontecorvo, where his relics were venerated. Saint Osburga of Coventry, Abbess and Virgin (c. 1015)Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 137.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New Hieromartyr Zachariah, Metropolitan of Corinth (1684)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Κορίνθου. 30 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk (1771)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Σωφρόνιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἰρκούτσκ καὶ πάσης Σιβηρίας. 30 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.St Sophronius the Bishop of Irkutsk. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Gabriel (Bănulescu-Bodoni), Metropolitan of Kishinev and Khotin, Moldova (1821)

Other commemorations

The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth (1st century)The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth. OCA - Feasts and Saints. Translation of the relicts of the Martyr-King Edmund of East Anglia.April 12 / March 30. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Repose of Blessed Matrona (Mylnikova) the Barefoot, of St. Petersburg, Fool for Christ (1911)

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References

Sources March 30/April 12. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). April 12 / March 30. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). March 30. 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. 25. March 30. 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. 90–91. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 137. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 30 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 30 Μαρτίου . ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources April 12 (30 March). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 30 марта (ст.ст.) 12 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).