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March 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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March 3 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 March 3 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of Comana (308)

Hieromartyr Theodoretus, Bishop, of Antioch, by beheading (361-363)

Venerable Alexandra of Alexandria (4th century)

Venerable Saints Zenon and Zoilus.

Venerable Shio Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th century)

Saint John IV (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1001)

Saint John V (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1048)

Martyrs Hemeterius and Cheledonius, believed to have been soldiers, suffered in Calahorra in Old Castile (ca. 298)

Saint Camilla, born in Civitavecchia, she became a disciple of St Germanus of Auxerre in France, where she lived as an anchoress (ca. 437)

Martyrs Felix, Luciolus, Fortunatus, Marcia and Companions, a group of forty martyrs in North Africa.

Saint Winwaloe, Abbot of Landévennec Abbey, Brittany (ca. 530)

Saint Titian of Brescia, Germanic by birth, became Bishop of Brescia in Italy (ca. 536)

Saint Caluppan of Auvergne in Gaul (576)

Saint Non (Nonnita, Nonna), mother of St. David of Wales (6th century)

Saint Foila (Faile), sister of St Colgan (6th century)

Saint Arthelais, one of the patron-saints of Benevento in Italy, where she fled from Constantinople (6th century)

Saint Lamalisse (Molaise of Leighlin), a hermit in Scotland, he left his name to the islet of Lamlash off the coast of the Isle of Arran in Scotland (7th century)

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