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7 March

25 commemorations of 7 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 20 March of the civil calendar.

Saints

  • Martyrs Codratus (Quadratus), Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259)orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Aemilian the Roman, and Jacob (James) and Marianos with him, under Valerian (259)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Αἰμιλιανός, Ἰάκωβος καὶ Μαριανὸς οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson
    • Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathadorus (4th century)
  • Venerable Paul the Simple, of Egypt (ca. 339), disciple of St. Anthony the GreatὉ Ὅσιος Παῦλος ὁ Ἁπλὸςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saints Nestor and Arcadius, Bishops of Tremithous, in Cyprus (4th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀρκάδιος καὶ Νέστορας Ἐπίσκοποι Τριμυθοῦντος Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Ephraim of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch (545)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐφραὶμ Πατριάρχης Ἀντιόχειαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Plousias in Bithynia (ca. 840)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Laurence (Lavrentios of Megara), founder of the monastery of the Mother of God Phaneromeni on Salamis Island (1707)Ὁ Ὅσιος Λαυρέντιος ἐκ Μεγάρωνsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Dandus (Dandas) and All Saints of Thraceholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Nilus (Tyutyukin), Hieromonk of St. Joseph of Volokolamsk Monastery (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Virgin-martyrs Matrona, Mary, Eudocia, Ecaterina, Antonina, Nadezhda, Xenia, and Anna (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.

  • Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Felicity, Saturus (Satyrus), Saturninus, Revocatus and Secundulus at Carthage (202-203)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Gaudiosus of Brescia, Confessor and Bishop of Brescia in Italy, where his relics were venerated (445)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Enodoch (Wenedoc), a saint in Wales (ca. 520)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Drausinus (Drausius), Bishop of Soissons, did much to encourage monasticism (ca. 576)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Deifer, founder of Bodfari in Clwyd in Wales (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Emilian, monk, of Italia (6th century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Eosterwine, the second Anglo-Saxon Abbot of Wearmouth in Northumbria (688)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης Ἐπίσκοπος Ὑόρκηςsynaxarion.gr
  • Saint Ardo Smaragdus, a hagiographer, abbot of the monastery of Aniane (843)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.

  • Synaxis of the Saints of the Dodecanesesaint.gr
  • Repose of Schemamonk Sisoes of Valaam (1931)pravoslavie.ru
  • Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety of Sinners" in Korets (1622), Odrin (1843) and Moscow (1848)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου «τῆς τῶν Ἁμαρτωλῶν Ἐγγυήσεως» ἐν Ρωσίᾳoca.org · synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Czestochowa"pravoslavie.ru

The list is March 7 (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.

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