9 March
22 commemorations of 9 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 22 March of the civil calendar.
In the map: The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Saints
- Martyr Urpasian the Senator, at Nicomedia, by being burned alive (c. 305)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320)
- Cyrion (or Quirio), Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus, Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John, Xanthias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angus, Aetius, Flavius, Acacius, Ecdicius, Lysimachus, Alexander, Elias, Gorgonius, Theophilus, Dometian, Gaius, Leontius, Athanasius, Cyril, Sacerdon, Nicholas, Valerius, Philoctimon, Severian, Chudion, Aglaius, and Meliton
- Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus (Caesarios the Doctor), brother of St. Gregory the Theologian (369)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Philoromus the Confessor, of Galatia (4th century)pravoslavie.ru
- Righteous Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaoniapravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Jonah, archbishop of Novgorod (1470)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Theodosius Levitsky, priest of Balta, Odessa (1845)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Dimitra (Ihorova), nun and foundress of the Vvedensk (Vovedenska) Convent in Kiev (1878)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- , two priests and their forty students, martyred by fire by the Ottoman Turks (1688)pravoslavie.ru · prijateljboziji.com · svetigora.com
- New Hieromartyr Mitrophan Buchnoff, Archpriest, of Voronezh (1931)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Joasaph (Shakhov), Abbot, of Popovka (Moscow) (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs (1938)
- Michael Maslov, Alexis Smirnov, Demetrius Glivenko, Sergius Lebedev, Sergius Zvetkov, Priests
- Nicholas Goryunov, Protodeacon
- Virgin-martyrs Natalia Yulianova and Alexandra Samoylovoy (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 Pacianus, Bishop of Barcelona (390)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Constantine of Cornwall and Govan (576)orthodoxengland.org.uk · thyateira.org.uk
- Saint Bosa of York, Bishop of York (705)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Vitalis of Castronovo, Sicily (994)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anthony, a monk at Luxeuil in France, became a hermit in Froidemont in Franche-Comté (10th century)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)pravoslavie.ru
- "Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("The Word Was Made Flesh") (1666)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Elder Cleopas of Ostrov-Vvedensky Monastery (1778)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Theophilus (Rossokha) of Kiev (1996)azbyka.ru · pravoslavie.ru
The list is March 9 (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.