Commemorated today
- Holy Fathers Slain at St Sabbas Monastery
What is known
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.
- St Photine the Samaritan Woman (66)
What is known
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.
- St Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Bishop of Lindisfarne (687)Hierarch · d. 687 life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
Equally at home in a crowded village and a solitary island cell, Cuthbert carried the peace of prayer into preaching, healing, episcopal service, and tenderness toward creation.
- Era
- c. 634–687
- Region
- Northumbria, Melrose, Lindisfarne, and Inner Farne
- Category
- Monk, hermit, missionary, bishop, and wonderworker
- Feast
- March 20
- Myron the New Martyr of CreteNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
What is known
A new martyr died in one of the later persecutions rather than the Roman ones — most often under Ottoman rule, or in the twentieth century under Soviet and other modern regimes. The word new distinguishes the era, not the manner.
The title places them at Crete.
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 20 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on April 2 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.