March 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 29

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 10 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 15.

Saints

  • Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas (Marotas), Narses, Elias, Marinus (Mares), Abibus, Sembeeth (Sivsithina), and Sabbas.

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Rogatus, Successus and Companions, a group of eighteen martyrs in North Africa.
  • Saint Sixtus III (Xystus), Pope of Rome from 432 (440).
  • Saint Spes (Speus), an Abbot of Campi in central Italy (ca. 513)
  • Saint Gontram (Gunthrammus), a repentant King of Burgundy in France (592)
  • Saint Gundelindis (Guendelindis), a daughter of the Duke of Alsace and niece of St Ottilia, whom she succeeded as Abbess of Niedermünster Abbey (ca. 750)
  • Saint Tutilo (Tuotilo), a gifted and artistic monk at St Gall Abbey in Switzerland (ca. 915)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Postnikov, Archpriest, of Timoshkino, Ryazan (1931)
  • New Hieromartyr Basil Malinin, Archpriest, of Pereslavl (1938)
  • Martyr John Chernoff (1939)
  • New Hieromartyr Peter Ochryzko, Priest of Chartoviec, Chełm and Podlasie, Poland (1944)

Other commemorations

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Notes

References

Sources

  • March 28/April 10. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • April 10 / March 28. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • March 28. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 25.
  • March 28. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 89.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources

  • (in Russian) 10 апреля (28 марта). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • (in Russian) 28 марта (ст.ст.) 10 апреля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).