March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 9 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 11

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 23 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For March 10th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 25 (February 26 on leap years).

## Saints

* Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), and with him Martyrs Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens, and Dionysius (another), at Corinth (251)
* Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias, and others, at Corinth (251 or 258) (see also: January 31)
* Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259) (see also: March 7)
* Martyr Marcian, by scourging.
* Saint Anastasia the Patrician, of Alexandria (567)
* Saint George Arselaites (6th century)
* Venerable Agathon, ascetic at the Monastery of St Symeon near Aleppo in Syria, reposed in peace.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Victor, in North Africa under Decius.
* Saint Silvester (Sylvester), a companion of St Palladius in enlightening Ireland (c. 420)
* Saint Simplicius, Pope of Rome (468-483), who upheld the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon against Monophysitism, and dealt with the Arian King Odoacer after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 (483)
* Saint Droctoveus (Drotté), a disciple of St Germanus of Paris (c. 580)
* Saint Kessog (Mackessog), an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire (c. 560)
* Saint Sedna (Sétna, Sidonius), Bishop of Ossory in Ireland and a friend of St Luanus (c. 570)
* Saint Attalus (Attala), Abbot of Bobbio Abbey (626)
* Saint Himelin, an Irish or Scottish priest who, returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, fell ill when passing through Vissenaken (c. 750)
* Saint Emilian (Eminian), born in Ireland, he became a monk and then Abbot of Lagny (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lagny) in France (675)
* Saint Failbhe the Little (Fáilbe mac Pípáin), Abbot of Iona in Scotland, where he reposed at the age of eighty (754)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable John of Khakhuli Monastery, Georgia, called Chrysostom, reposed on Mount Athos (10th-11th century)
* New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (Michael of Soluneia), at Thessalonica (1544 or 1547) (see also: March 21)
* Saint Paul of Taganrog (Pavel of Taganrog) (1879)
* Saint Alexander (Badanin), Priest, of Vologda (1913)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the Desert-dwellers of the Roslavl Forests near Bryansk.

## Icon gallery

* Saint Simplicius, Pope of Rome (468-483).
* Tom Na Kessaig (Hill of St. Kessog). The mound dates from the 6th century and is located at The Meadows in Callander.
* Saint Attalus (Attala), Abbot of Bobbio Abbey.
* Saint Himelin.
* Kelya of Saint Pavel of Taganrog.
