saints of the day

Venerable Alexis the Man of God

Orthodox Calendar March 17 Venerable Alexis the Man of God Saint Alexis was born at Rome into the family of the pious and poverty-loving Euphemianus and Aglais. The couple was childless for a long time and constantly prayed the Lord to grant them a child. And the Lord consoled the couple with the birth of…

Mar 17, 2026basilica.ro

Martyr Sabinus of Egypt; St. Christodoulos of Patmo

Orthodox Calendar March 16 Holy Martyr Sabinus The Holy Martyr Sabinus was the administrator of the Egyptian city of Hermopolis. During a persecution of Christians under the emperor Diocletian (284-305), Saint Sabinus and some like-minded companions hid in a remote village. His hiding place was revealed by a certain ungrateful beggar who had brought him…

Mar 16, 2026basilica.ro

Martyrs Agapius, Publius & Timolaus; Third Sunday of Lent – Veneration of the Cross

Orthodox Calendar March 15 Martyrs Agapius, Publius & Timolaus The Holy Martyrs Agapius, Publius, Timolaus, Romulus, Alexander, Alexander, Dionysius and Dionysius suffered under the emperor Diocletian (284-305) in the city of Palestinian Caesarea. During one of the pagan festivals, they began to torture and execute Christians who refused to offer sacrifice to idols. The Martyr…

Mar 15, 2026basilica.ro

Venerable Benedict of Nursia; Hieromartyr Alexander the priest (Memorial Saturday)

Orthodox Calendar, March 14 Venerable Benedict of Nursia The founder of Western monasticism was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint’s parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by the immorality around him, he decided to devote himself to a different…

Mar 14, 2026basilica.ro

Translation of the relics of St Nicephorus the Patriarch of Constantinople

Orthodox Calendar, March 13 Translation of the relics of St Nicephorus the Patriarch of Constantinople Saint Nicephorus was a dignitary at the court of the empress Irene (797-802), and then after receiving monastic tonsure, he became known for his piety. In the year 806 he was elevated to the patriarchal throne. The saint was a…

Mar 13, 2026basilica.ro

Saint Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane; Saint Gregory Dialogus; Saint Simeon the New Theologian

Orthodox Calendar, March 12 Saint Theophanes the Confessor He was born in 759 in Constantinople into a pious and renowned family. His father was a relative of the Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741). Three years after Theophanes was born, his father died, leaving his family under the care of the emperor himself. Theophanes grew…

Mar 12, 2026basilica.ro

St. Sophronius the Patriarch of Jerusalem

Orthodox Calendar, March 11 Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, was born in Damascus around 560. From his youth he was distinguished for his piety and his love for classical studies. He was especially proficient in philosophy, and so he was known as Sophronius the Wise. The future hierarch, however, sought…

Mar 11, 2026basilica.ro

Martyrs Quadratus, Cyprian and Dionysius

Orthodox Calendar, March 10 Martyrs Quadratus, Cyprian and Dionysius The Holy Martyr Quadratus (Codratus) and those with him: During a persecution against Christians (in the third century) a certain pious woman named Rufina fled from Corinth to a mountain, to escape from her pursuers. There she gave birth to a son Quadratus, and died soon…

Mar 10, 2026basilica.ro

† 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste

Orthodox Calendar, March 9 In the year 313 Saint Constantine the Great issued an edict granting Christians religious freedom, and officially recognizing Christianity as equal with paganism under the law. But his co-ruler Licinius was a pagan, and he decided to stamp out Christianity in his part of the Empire. As Licinius prepared his army…

Mar 9, 2026basilica.ro

Holy Priest-Martyr Liviu Galaction of Cluj; St. Theophylactus the Bishop of Nicomedia; Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas

Orthodox Calendar, March 8 Holy Priest-Martyr Liviu Galaction of Cluj Saint Liviu Galaction was born on May 16, 1898, in the village of Cristian, Brașov County. His father, Nicolae Munteanu, was a teacher, and his mother, Maria, was a homemaker. They had six children, of whom Liviu Galaction was the second. From childhood, he showed…

Mar 8, 2026basilica.ro

Hieromartyrs Ephraim of Tomis and Basil, Eugene, Agathodorus, Capiton, Elpidius and Aetherius, bishops of Cherson (Commemoration of the departed)

Orthodox Calendar, March 7 In the year 300, Bishop Hermon of Jerusalem sent to the city of Cherson in Tauric Scythia (Crimea) two bishops, Ephraim and Basileus, to preach the teaching of the Gospel. Ephraim went to Scythia, where, after many labours in the service of the Word of God, he suffered a martyr’s death.…

Mar 7, 2026basilica.ro