4 March
27 commemorations of 4 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 17 March of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Gerasimos of the Jordan
Saints
- Saint Julian of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria (189)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius, and Stratonicus, at Ptolemais in Egypt (273)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Παῦλος καὶ Ἰουλιανὴ οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Gerasimus of Jordan (475)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ὁ Ἰορδανίτηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory of Constantius in Cyprus, BishopὉ Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Κωνσταντίας τῆς Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Jacob the Faster, of Phoenicia, Syria (6th century)oca.org · mospat.ru · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Gregory, Bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἄσσουsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Gerasimus, monk of Vologda, founder of the Holy Trinity Monastery (1178)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεράσιμος ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Blessed Basil (Basilko), Prince of Rostov (1238)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος βασιλεὺς Ροστὼβ τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints of Pskov martyred by the Latins
- Saint Ioasaph of Snetogorsk Monastery, and St. Basil of Mirozh Monastery (1299)
- Saint Daniel of Moscow, Great Prince (1303)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δανιὴλ ὁ Πρίγκιπαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Peter (Michurin), youth of Tobolsk (Peter of Tomsk) (1820)holytrinityorthodox.com
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Michael Kargopolov, Priest of Krasnoyarsk (1919)
- New Hieromartyr Dimitry Ivanov of Kiev, Archpriest (1933)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Vyacheslav Leontiev of Nizhegorod, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr John of Al-Sindiyana, Palestine (1937)pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Lucius I, succeeded St Cornelius as Pope of Rome in 253, and was at once sent into exileorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs of Rome, a group of nine hundred martyrs buried in the Catacombs of Callistus on the Appian Way in Rome (260)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leonard of Avranches, Bishop of Avranches (ca. 614)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Owen (Owin), a monk at Lastingham in England with St Chad, then settled at a monastery near Lichfield (ca. 680)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Basinus, monk and Abbot of St Maximin in Trier in Germany, succeeded St Numerian as bishop of the city (ca. 705)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Appian, a monk at the monastery of St Peter of Ciel d'Oro in Pavia, became a hermit in Comacchio and brought Christ to that region (ca. 800)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adrian of May and Companions, a bishop on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth in Scotland, martyred by the Danes together with other monks (ca. 875)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Felix of Rhuys, a monk at Fleury Abbey (Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire) in France (1038)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Translation of the relics (938) of Martyr Wenceslaus (Vaclav), Prince of the Czechs (935)Μετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Βιασεσλάβου Πρίγκιπα τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Glinsk Hermitage (1893)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schema-Nun Agnia, Eldress of Karaganda (1976)pravoslavie.ru
The list is March 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.