15 March
17 commemorations of 15 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 28 March of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first bishop of Britain (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀριστόβουλος ὁ Ἀπόστολος Ἐπίσκοπος Βρετανίαςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Agapius, and with him seven martyrs (303)
- Publius (Pauplios); Timolaus; Romulus; two named Dionysius; and two named Alexander; at Caesarea in Palestine
- Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia (270-275)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Nicander of Egypt (305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νίκανδρος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hebarestes, steward of a church located in Jerusalemholytrinityorthodox.com
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Nicander, monk, of Gorodetsk, Nizhni-Novgorod (1603)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Manuel of Crete (1792)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μανουὴλ ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Σφακίωνsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Parthenios, Deacon, at Didymoteicho (1805)Ὁ Ἅγιος Παρθένιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Alexis Vinogradov, Protopresbyter of Novotroitskoye, Tver (1938)pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest of Chimkent (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Michael Bogoslovsky, Protopresbyter of Simferopol-Crimea (1940)holytrinityorthodox.com · 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.
- Martyr Mancius (5th or 6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy (c. 555)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Probus of Rieti, Bishop of Rieti in central Italy (c. 571)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Zachariah, Pope of Rome (752)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Leocritia (Lucretia), a holy virgin in Cordoba in Spain (859)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
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 deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the earthquake of 1938Μνήμη Σωτηρίας τῆς νήσου Λευκάδοςsynaxarion.gr
The list is March 15 (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.