March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)


March 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 23
All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For March 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 9.

Saints

Virgin-confessor Drosida of Antioch, daughter of Emperor Trajan, and with her five Virgin-martyrs Martyrs Kalliniki and Vasilissa of Rome Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra, Priest of Ancyra

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker
  • New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Dimitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople

New martyrs and confessors

  • Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava
  • New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia of Kiev, and her priest Demetrius Ivanov

Other commemorations

  • "The Izborsk" Icon of the Mother of God
  • Commemoration of Maria Berushko of Brazil and eight students who died trying to save people during a fire in their school