March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 7

2006

• Clean Monday, the beginning of Great Lent

Fixed commemorations

All commemorations below are observed on March 19 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Martyrs Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, and Basoes, in Ammoria in Phrygia (845)
• Saint Arcadius of Cyprus, monk (4th century)
• Martyrs Conon, monk, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270s)
• Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria
• Saint Fridolin, abbot and enlightener of the Upper Rhine (6th century)
• Monk-martyr Maximus
• Martyr Euphrosynus
• Martyr Julian
• Saint Hesychius the Wonderworker, monk

Other commemorations

• Repose of Elder Job of Solovki (1720)