20 March
25 commemorations of 20 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 2 April of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Righteous Abel, first martyr in the history of mankindorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Photina (Fatima, Svetlana), the Samaritan woman, martyred under Nero (c. 66)
- her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca (Kyriake)
- her sons Victor (or Photinus) and Joses (Joseph)
- Sebastian the Duke
- the officer Anatolius; and
- Theoclitus, the former sorcerer
- Seven Virgin-martyrs of Amisus (Samsun) (c. 303-305)
- Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia
- Martyr Akyla the Eparch, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Ἀκύλας ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Ἔπαρχοςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Emmanuel, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Ἐμμανουὴλ ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Rodian, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Ροδιανὸς ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Lollian the ElderὉ Ἅγιος Λολλίων ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Hieromartyr Tadros, Bishop of Edessa, at Jerusalem (691)pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Michael the Sabbaite, at Jerusalem (691)pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Archil II (Archilios II), king of Georgia (744)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρχίλιος Β’ ὁ Μάρτυρας βασιλέας τῆς Γεωργίαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru · serbianorthodoxchurch.net
- The Venerable Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St. Sabbas (796)
- Saints John, Sergius, Patrick, and others
- Saint Nicetas the Confessor, Bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀπολλωνιάδοςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- New Hieromartyr Euphrosynus of Blue-Jay Lake, Valaam, Novgorod Republic (1612)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐφρόσυνος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Myron of Mega Castro (Heraklion) in Crete (1793)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μύρων ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἀπὸ τὸ Ἡράκλειο Κρήτηςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolov, Deacon (1938)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Holz, priest of Novosiolki, Chełm and Podlasie, Poland (1944)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.
- Saint Urbitius, Bishop of Metz in the east of France (c. 420)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Tetricus of Langres, Bishop of Langres and uncle of St Gregory of Tours (572)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Martin of Braga in Iberia (580)orthochristian.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop (687)Ὁ Ὅσιος Κουθβέρτος ἐκ Βρετανίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Herbert of Derwentwater, an Anglo-Saxon priest and friend of St Cuthbert, who lived as a hermit on St Herbert's Island (687)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Wulfram of Sens, missionary, Bishop of Sens (703)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Benignus, a monk and Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey (725)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Remigius von Straßburg, a noble, became Abbot of Münster near Colmar in France and in 776 Bishop of Strasbourg (783)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint William of Peñacorada, monk at the monastery of Satagún in León in Spain (c. 1042)orthodoxengland.org.uk
The list is March 20 (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.