12 March
25 commemorations of 12 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 25 March of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
Saints
- Righteous Aaron the High Priest, brother of Prophet Moses the God-seer (c. 1530 BC)synaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Righteous Phineas, grandson of Aaron (ca. 1500 BC)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy Nine Martyrs in the Persian Empiresynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saint Cyrus (Abba-Cyr), monk of Alexandria (6th century)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Gregory the Dialogist, Pope of Rome (604)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane (818)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Saints Symeon the New Theologian (1022), and his elder, Symeon the Studite (Symeon the Reverent, the Pious), of the Studion (987)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Lawrence the Martyr (Lavrentios), one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century)synaxarion.gr
- Martyr Demetrius the Devoted, King of Georgia (1289)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (monk Theoctistus Dragutin) (1316)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Kiril Peychinovich (1845)novamakedonija.com.mk
New martyrs and confessors
- Saint Alexander Derzhavin, Priest, Confessor (1933)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir (Volkov), Archimandrite of Islavskoe (Moscow) (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr John Plekhanov, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Skvortsov, Priest (1943)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 Mamilian (Maximilian), in Romeorthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Martyr Maximilian of Tebessa, in Thebeste in Numidia, for refusing military service (295)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Paul Aurelian (Paul de Léon), Bishop of Léon in Brittany, Confessor (572)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Peter the Deacon, disciple, secretary and companion of St Gregory the Great, and patron-saint of Salussola in Italy (ca. 605)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Mura McFeredach (Muran, Murames), Abbot of Fahan in County Donegal, patron-saint of Fahan where his cross still stands (ca. 645)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alphege (Ælfheah the Elder, Ælfheah the Bald), Bishop of Winchester, England (951)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nicodemus of Mammola in Calabria (990)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Not-Made-by-Hands" (on the Pillar) at Lyddaoca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schema-monk Anthony the Gorge-dweller, of Zelenchug Monastery in Kuban (1908)pravoslavie.ru
- Restoration of the Autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church (1917)holytrinityorthodox.com
The list is March 12 (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.