March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 30

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. ^{[note 1]}

For March 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 16 .

Saints

• Martyrs Jonas and Barachisius, and companions, in Persia, under Shapur II (330): ^{[1] [2] [3] [note 2]} (see also: March 28 )

• Abibus, Zanithas, Elias (Helias), Lazarus, Mares, Maruthas, Narses, Sabbas, Simiathos.

• Saint Mark the Confessor, Bishop of Arethusa (364) ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}
• Hieromartyr Cyril, Deacon, of Heliopolis, and others, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (364) ^{[6] [9] [10]}
• Venerable John of Egypt, anchorite (4th century) ^{[6] [11] [12]}
• Saint Diadochos of Photiki, Bishop of Photike in Old Epirus, whose works are included in the Philokalia (ca. 486) ^{[6] [13]}
• Venerable Hesychios the Sinaite, Abbot of Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai (7th century) ^{[6] [14]}
• Saint Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th century) ^{[2] [6] [15] [16]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyr Secundus of Asti, a noble from Asti in Piedmont in Italy and an officer in the imperial army, beheaded in Asti under Hadrian (119) ^{[4] [17]}
• Saints Armogastes and Companions (c. 460) ^{[17] [18] [note 3] [note 4]}
• Saints Gwynllyw (Gundleus) and Gwladys (Gladys), parents of St. Cadoc (5th century) ^{[11] [17] [19]}
• Saint Firminus, Bishop of Viviers in France (6th century) ^[17]
• Saint Lasar (Lassar, Lassera), a nun in Ireland and niece of St Forchera (6th century) ^{[17] [20]}
• Saint Eustasius of Luxeuil (Eustace), Abbot of Luxeuil (625) ^{[4] [6] [11] [17] [21] [22] [note 5]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Jonah (1480), ^[23] Mark (15th century), ^[24] and Bassa ^[25] of the Pskov-Caves Monastery. ^{[6] [11] [26] [note 6]}
• Saint Nicetas, desert-dweller of the Roslavl Forests, near Bryansk (1793) ^[6]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyrs Priest Paul Voinarsky, and brothers Paul and Alexis Kiryan, of the Crimea (1919) ^{[6] [11]}
• New Hieromartyr Michael Victorov, Archpriest, of Boloshnevo, Ryazan (1933) ^{[6] [11] [28]}

Icon gallery

• 
  Collegiate church of San Secondo in Asti.
• 
  St Gwladys in stained glass.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "IN Persia, the holy martyrs Jonas and Barachisius, under Sapor, king of Persia. Jonas, being pressed in a vice till his bones were broken, was cut in twain; Barachisius was suffocated by burning pitch poured into his throat." ^[4]
3. Armogastes and Saturus, high officers at the palace, suffered in North Africa during the Arian persecution under the Vandal King Genseric. First they were tortured, then sent to hard labour in the mines, finally condemned to slavery as cowherds near Carthage. They were not put to death 'in case the Romans should venerate them as martyrs'.
4. "In Africa, under the Arian king Genseric, during the persecution of the Vandals, the holy confessors Armogastes, count, Mascula, Archimimus, and Saturus, master of the king's household. Having endured many severe torments, as well as reproaches, for the confession of the truth, they reached the end of their glorious combats." ^[4]
5. A favourite disciple and monk of St Columbanus, whom he succeeded as second Abbot of Luxeuil in France. There were some six hundred monks there, many of whom became saints.
6. "St Marko was of the Kyiv Caves Monastery who came to Pskov to establish a similar monastic establishment there. The history of the Pskov Caves relates that many Kyiv Caves monastics came there, although their names are mostly not recorded for posterity. The Pskov Caves Monastery is a "daughter monastery" of the Kyiv Caves." ^[27]

References

1. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωνᾶς, Βαραχήσιος, Ἄβιβος, Ζανιθᾶς, Ἠλίας, Λάζαρος, Μάρης, Μαρουθᾶς, Ναρσῆς, Σάββας καὶ Σιμιάθος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 29 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
3. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. JONAS AND BARACHISIUS, MM. (A.D. 327.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 491.
4. 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. p. 90.
5. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Μάρκος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀρεθουσίων. 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. March 29/April 11. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
7. Hieromartyr Mark the Bishop of Arethusa, who suffered under Julian the Apostate. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
8. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. MARK, B. C, AND CYRIL, D. M. (A.D. 362.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 492-495.
9. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύριλλος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἄνδρες καὶ γυναῖκες Μάρτυρες ἐν Ἀσκαλώνι καὶ Γάζῃ. 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. Martyr Cyril the Deacon of Heliopolis, who suffered under Julian the Apostate. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
11. April 11 / March 29. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
12. Venerable John the Anchorite of Egypt. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
13. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Διάδοχος Ἐπίσκοπος Φωτικῆς τῆς Παλαιᾶς Ἠπείρου. 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἠσύχιος ὁ Σιναΐτης. 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐστάθιος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Κίου Βιθυνίας. 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. St Eustathius (Eustace) the Confessor, Bishop of Bithynia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
17. March 29. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
18. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. ARMOGASTES AND COMPANIONS, MM. (ABOUT A.D. 463.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 496-498.
19. 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. 136-137.
20. Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article IV.—St. Lasar, Lassar, or Lassera, Virgin. [Sixth Century]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 996-998.
21. Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article V.—St. Eustace, or Eustasius, Abbot of Luxeu, France. [Sixth and Seventh Centuries]." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. III. Dublin, 1875. pp. 998-1006.
22. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. EUSTACE, AB. OF LUXEUIL. (A.D. 625.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 498-501.
23. Venerable Jonah (John) of the Pskov Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
24. Venerable Mark of the Pskov Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
25. 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.
26. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ὅσιοι Μάρκος, Ἰωνᾶς καὶ Βάσσος. 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
27. Dr. Alexander Roman. March. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
28. (in Russian) 29 марта (ст.ст.) 11 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

Sources

• March 29/April 11. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• April 11 / March 29. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• March 29. 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 29. 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. p. 90.
• 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. 136–137.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 29 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 29 Μαρτίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) April 11 (March 29). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 29 марта (ст.ст.) 11 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).