22 March
20 commemorations of 22 March in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 4 April of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Virgin-confessor Drosida (Drosis) of Antioch, daughter of Emperor Trajan, and with her five Virgin-martyrs (104-117)Ἡ Ἁγία Δροσὶς καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῇ πέντε Κανονικὲςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Kalliniki and Vasilissa of Rome (252)Οἱ Ἁγίες Βασίλισσα καὶ Καλλινίκη οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra, Priest of Ancyra (362)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Πρεσβύτερος Ἀγκύραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker (1602)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ Θαυματουργὸς Ἐπίσκοπος Μανγκαζίας Σιβηρίαςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Dimitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ ἐκ Δημητσάνηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia (Grineva) of Kiev (1941), and her priest Demetrius Ivanov (1934)Ἡ Ἁγία Σοφία ἡ Ὁσιομάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · 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 Epaphroditus, by tradition the first Bishop of Terracina in Italy (1st century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Paul, Bishop of Narbonne, Brittany (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Lea of Rome, an aristocrat in Rome who on the death of her husband entered the convent of St Marcella (384)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Deogratius, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (457)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Octavian and Companions, Archdeacon of the Church in Carthage in North Africa, martyred with several thousand companions under the Arian Vandal King... (484)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Saturninus and Companions, a group of ten martyrs in North Africaorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Trien (Trienan), a disciple of St Patrick and Abbot of Killelga in Ireland (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Darerca of Ireland, sister of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fáilbe mac Pípáin, the eighth Abbot of Iona in Scotland (680)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.
- "The Izborsk" Icon of the Mother of God (1657)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Uncovering of the relics (2026) of Saint Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos the Missionary (1972), in the city of Kananga in the Democratic Republic of the Congouoj.news
- Commemoration of Maria Berushko of Brazil and eight students who died trying to save people during a fire in their school (1986)old.risu.org.ua
The list is March 22 (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.