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10 March

23 commemorations of 10 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 23 March of the civil calendar.

Saints

  • Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), and with him Martyrs Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens, and Dionysius (another), at Corinth (251)orthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias, and others, at Corinth (251 or 258)pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Marcian, by scourgingsynaxarion.gr
  • Saint Anastasia the Patrician, of Alexandria (567)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint George Arselaites (6th century)pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Agathon, ascetic at the Monastery of St Symeon near Aleppo in Syria, reposed in peacesynaxarion.gr

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable John of Khakhuli Monastery, Georgia, called Chrysostom, reposed on Mount Athos (10th-11th century)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (Michael of Soluneia), at Thessalonica (1544 or 1547)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Paul of Taganrog (Pavel of Taganrog) (1879)pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Alexander (Badanin), Priest, of Vologda (1913)pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest (1938)mospat.ru · 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.

  • Martyr Victor, in North Africa under Deciusorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Silvester (Sylvester), a companion of St Palladius in enlightening Ireland (c. 420)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Simplicius, Pope of Rome (468-483), who upheld the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon against Monophysitism, and dealt with the Arian King Odoacer...orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Droctoveus (Drotté), a disciple of St Germanus of Paris (c. 580)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Kessog (Mackessog), an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire (c. 560)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Sedna (Sétna, Sidonius), Bishop of Ossory in Ireland and a friend of St Luanus (c. 570)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Attalus (Attala), Abbot of Bobbio Abbey (626)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Himelin, an Irish or Scottish priest who, returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, fell ill when passing through Vissenaken (c. 750)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Emilian (Eminian), born in Ireland, he became a monk and then Abbot of Lagny (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lagny) in France (675)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Failbhe the Little (Fáilbe mac Pípáin), Abbot of Iona in Scotland, where he reposed at the age of eighty (754)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.

  • Commemoration of the Desert-dwellers of the Roslavl Forests near Bryanskpravoslavie.ru

The list is March 10 (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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