March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
March 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 10
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For March 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 24 .
Saints
- Martyr Urpasian the Senator, at Nicomedia, by being burned alive The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste :Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus, brother of St. Gregory the Theologian
- Saint Philoromus the Confessor, of Galatia
- Righteous Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Pacianus, Bishop of Barcelona
- Saint Constantine of Cornwall and Govan
- Saint Bosa of York, Bishop of York
- Venerable Vitalis of Castronovo, Sicily
- Saint Anthony, a monk at Luxeuil in France, became a hermit in Froidemont in Franche-Comté
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Jonah, archbishop of Novgorod
- Saint Theodosius Levitsky, priest of Balta, Odessa
- Saint Dimitra, nun and foundress of the Vvedensk Convent in Kiev
New martyrs and confessors
- , two priests and their forty students, martyred by fire by the Ottomans
- New Hieromartyr Mitrophan Buchnoff, Archpriest, of Voronezh
- New Hieromartyr Joasaph, Abbot, of Popovka
- New Hieromartyrs :
- Virgin-martyrs Natalia Yulianova and Alexandra Samoylovoy
Other commemorations
- Translation to Vladimir of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga
- "Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
- Repose of Elder Cleopas of Ostrov-Vvedensky Monastery
- Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Theophilus of Kiev