Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- St Cyril, Archbishop of JerusalemHierarch life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
Speaking to people preparing for Baptism, Cyril unfolded the Creed, the Scriptures, and the Holy Mysteries as realities to be entered—not merely religious facts to be collected.
- Era
- c. 315–386
- Region
- Jerusalem
- Category
- Hierarch, Church Father, and catechetical teacher
- Feast
- March 18
- Repose of St Nikolaj of ZhichaRepose
What is known
Repose is the Orthodox word for a saint's death — falling asleep. The day of death is normally the day the Church keeps.
The title places it at Zhicha.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- St Ananias (Aninus) the Wonderworker (?)Wonderworker
What is known
Wonderworker records that miracles were attributed to this saint, during life or at the relics afterwards. It is a statement about what the Church received, not a claim this site can check.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Saint Nikolai (Velimirovic), Bishop of Ochrid and Zica, Serbia (1956)(March 5 OC)Hierarch · d. 1956
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Ochrid. The year given is 1956.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Trophimos & Eukarpion, Monk-martyrs of NicomedeaMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The title places them at Nicomedea. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Edward the Martyr, King of EnglandMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The title places them at England. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on March 18 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on March 31 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.