6 March
24 commemorations of 6 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 19 March of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270–275)orthochristian.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (c. 304)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling waterὉ Ἅγιος Εὐφρόσυνος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoningὉ Ἅγιος Μάξιμος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helena in Jerusalem (326)Μνήμη Εὑρέσεως Τιμίου Σταυροῦ μετὰ τῶν Τιμίων Ἥλων ὑπὸ τῆς Ἁγίας Ἑλένηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and EuboulosὉ Ὅσιος Ἀρκάδιοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Arkadios, Archbishop of Cyprus (527–565)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρκάδιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Hesychius the WonderworkerὉ Ὅσιος Ἡσύχιος ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr
- The holy 42 Martyrs of Amorium (in Phrygia)
- Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others, in Samarra (845)
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island, Solovki (1720)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰὼβ ὁ Ἐρημίτηςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
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 Marcian of Tortona (120)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Patrick of Avernia (ca. 307)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna in Italy for twenty years, 315-335orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine (540)orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, female members of the Mercian royal family in 7th century England (c. 680)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (Balther), a priest in Lindisfarne in England who became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Chrodegang of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part in several Councils (766)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bilfrid (Billfrith), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cathróe of Metz (Cadroe, Cadroel) (976)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 to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου Νεομάρτυρα Ἀβρααμίου τοῦ ἐκ Βουλγαρίαςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989)pravoslavie.ru
- "Chenstokhovskaya" (Poland) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Black Madonna of Częstochowa)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Τσζεστόκοβα ἐν Ρωσίᾳoca.org · synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- "Blessed Heaven" (Moscow) Icon of the Most Holy TheotokosΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Οὐρανίου Χαρᾶς ἐν Μόσχᾳsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- The Shestokhovsk ("Hearth"), or Sheltomezhsk, Icon of the Mother of God (18th century)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Καρδίας ἐν Σελτομέζᾳ τῆς Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
The list is March 6 (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.