March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 6 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 March6 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270–275)March 6/March 19. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Monkmartyr Conon and his son of Iconium. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (c. 304)March 19 / March 6. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling water.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐφρόσυνος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoning.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helena in Jerusalem (326)Great Synaxaristes: Μνήμη Εὑρέσεως Τιμίου Σταυροῦ μετὰ τῶν Τιμίων Ἥλων ὑπὸ τῆς Ἁγίας Ἑλένης. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helen in Jerusalem. OCA - Lives of the Saints.March 6. St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery 2012 Calendar. Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361),Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρκάδιος. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. and his disciples Julian and Euboulos.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰουλιανὸς καὶ Εὔβουλος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Arcadius of Cyprus. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Arkadios, Archbishop of Cyprus (527–565)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρκάδιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κύπρου. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Hesychius the Wonderworker.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἡσύχιος ὁ Θαυματουργός. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: March 5) The holy 42 Martyrs of Amorium (in Phrygia), including: Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore,Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Κρατερός. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Melissenus,Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Μελισσηνὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Callistus, Basoes, and others, in Samarra (845)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀέτιος, Βασσόης, Θεόδωρος, Θεόφιλος, Κάλλιστος, Κωνσταντῖνος καὶ ἄλλοι 36 Μάρτυρες. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Marcian of Tortona (120)March 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Saint Patrick of Avernia (ca. 307) Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna in Italy for twenty years, 315-335 (335) Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine (540)ANCIENT GEORGIAN AND WESTERN SAINTS OFFICIALLY ADDED TO RUSSIAN CHURCH CALENDAR. ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY. May 15, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2018.Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "ARTICLE I.—ST. FRIDOLIN, THE TRAVELLER, ABBOT OF SECKINGEN, AND PATRON OF GLARUS CANTON, SWITZERLAND. [SEVENTH CENTURY]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 155-172.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. FRIDOLIN, AB. OF SICKINGEN. (END OF 7TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 91-93. Saints Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, female members of the Mercian royal family in 7th century England (c. 680)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. pp. 102-105.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. KYNEBURGA, ABSS., KYNESWITHA AND TIBBA, VV. (END OF 7TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 93-94. Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (Balther), a priest in Lindisfarne in England who became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article XV.—St. Baldred or Baltherus, Hermit, and Missionary, in Scotland, and St. Bilfrid, or Bilfred, a Hermit, at Lindisfarne, in England. [Probably in the Seventh or Eighth Century]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 202-205.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. BALTHER AND BILFRED, H. H. (ABOUT A.D. 756.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 94-95. Saint Chrodegang of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part in several Councils (766)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. CHRODEGANG, B. OF METZ. (A.D. 766.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 96. Saint Bilfrid (Billfrith), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th century) Saint Cathróe of Metz (Cadroe, Cadroel) (976)Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article V.—St. Cadroe, or Hadroe, Abbot of Wasor, Belgium. [Tenth Century]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 181-196.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Venerable Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island, Solovki (1720)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰὼβ ὁ Ἐρημίτης. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Other commemorations

Translation to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229)Great Synaxaristes: Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Νεομάρτυρα Ἀβρααμίου τοῦ ἐκ Βουλγαρίας. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989)

Icons

"Chenstokhovskaya" (Poland) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Black Madonna of Częstochowa).The Chenstokhovsk (Czestochowa) Icon of the Mother of God. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Icon of the Mother of God “Czestochowa”. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Great Synaxaristes: Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Τσζεστόκοβα ἐν Ρωσίᾳ. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. "Blessed Heaven" (Moscow) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.The Icon of the Mother of God, named "Graced of Heaven" ("Blagodatnoe Nebo"). HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Great Synaxaristes: Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Οὐρανίου Χαρᾶς ἐν Μόσχᾳ. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. The Shestokhovsk ("Hearth"), or Sheltomezhsk, Icon of the Mother of God (18th century)The Shestokhovsk ("Hearth"), or Sheltomezhsk, Icon of the Mother of God. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Great Synaxaristes: Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Καρδίας ἐν Σελτομέζᾳ τῆς Ρωσίας. 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources March 6/March 19. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). March 19 / March 6. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). March 6. 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). pp. 19–20. March 6. 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. 67–68. 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. pp. 102–105. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 6 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 6 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 19 марта (6 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 6 марта (ст.ст.) 19 марта 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).