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11 March

30 commemorations of 11 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 24 March of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Sophronius of Jerusalem

Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Theodora of Arta, Queen of Arta, wife of Despot Michael II of Epirus (c. 1275)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th century)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Euthymius II of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod, Wonderworker (1458)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Sophronius of Vratsa, Bishop of Vratsa, Bulgaria (1813)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves (1917)synaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hiero-confessor Patrick (Petrov), hieromonk of Valaam Monastery (1933)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Basil Malahov, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hiero-confessor Michael (Galushko), Schema-archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1961)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.

  • Martyrs Candidus, Piperion and Companions, 22 martyrs who suffered in North Africa (in Carthage or in Alexandria), under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 254-259)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
  • Martyrs Heraclius and Zosimus, who suffered in Carthage in North Africa under Valerian and Gallienus (263)synaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyr Alberta, one of the first victims of the persecution under Diocletian, she suffered in Agen in France with St Faith and others (c. 286)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyr Constantine, a confessor in Carthage in North AfricaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Hieromartyr Constantine of Cornwall and Govan, in Kintyre, Scotland (576)bartleby.com · holytrinityorthodox.com · thyateira.org.uk
  • Saint Constantine of Strathclyde, King, Monk, Confessor (640)synaxarion.gr
  • Saint Vigilius, Successor of St Palladius (661) as Bishop of Auxerre in France, murdered in a forest near Compiègne by order of the mayor of the palace (685)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Vindician, a disciple of St Eligius, became Bishop of Arras-Cambrai in France and bravely protested against the excesses of the Merovingian Kings (712)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Benedict Crispus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan in Italy for forty-five years (725)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Óengus the Culdee (Óengus of Tallaght, Angus), Bishop, of Clonenagh, Ireland (824)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Hieromartyr Eulogius of Córdoba, Metropolitan of Cordoba, who suffered martyrdom for protecting St Leocritia, a young girl converted from Islam (859)synaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Firmian (Fermanus, Firminus), Abbot of San Sabino Piceno near Fermo in Italy (c. 1020)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Peter the Spaniard, a pilgrim from Spain to Rome who settled as a hermit in Babuco near Veroli, confessor, renowned for miraclesRoman Martyrology · 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 Constantinople of the relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, from Alexandria (250)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Slaying of Emperor Paul I of Russia (1801)synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru

The list is March 11 (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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