March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 30

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For March 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 16.

Saints

• Martyrs Jonas and Barachisius, and companions, in Persia, under Shapur II (330):^{[1][2][3][note 2]} (see also: March 28)

• Abibus, Zanithas, Elias (Helias), Lazarus, Mares, Maruthas, Narses, Sabbas, Simiathos (Sebeethes, Symeethes).^[5]

• Saint Mark the Confessor, Bishop of Arethusa (364)^[6][7][8][9]
• Hieromartyr Cyril, Deacon, of Heliopolis, and others, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (364)^[7][10][11]
• Venerable John of Egypt, anchorite (4th century)^[7][12][13]
• Saint Diadochos of Photiki, Bishop of Photike in Old Epirus, whose works are included in the Philokalia (ca. 486)^[7][14]
• Venerable Hesychios the Sinaite, Abbot of Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai (7th century)^[7][15]
• Saint Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th century)^{[2][7][16][17]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyr Secundus of Asti, a noble from Asti in Piedmont in Italy and an officer in the imperial army, beheaded in Asti under Hadrian (119)^[4][18]
• Saints Armogastes and Companions (c. 460)^{[18][19][note 3][note 4]}
• Saints Gwynllyw (Gundleus) and Gwladys (Gladys), parents of St. Cadoc (5th century)^[12][18][20]
• Saint Firminus, Bishop of Viviers in France (6th century)^[18]
• Saint Lasar (Lassar, Lassera), a nun in Ireland and niece of St Forchera (6th century)^[18][21]
• Saint Eustasius of Luxeuil (Eustace), Abbot of Luxeuil (625)^{[4][7][12][18][22][23][note 5]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Jonah (1480),^[24] Mark (15th century),^[25] and Bassa^[26] of the Pskov-Caves Monastery.^{[7][12][27][note 6]}
• Saint Nicetas, desert-dweller of the Roslavl Forests, near Bryansk (1793)^[7]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyrs Priest Paul Voinarsky, and brothers Paul and Alexis Kiryan, of the Crimea (1919)^[7][12]
• New Hieromartyr Michael Victorov, Archpriest, of Boloshnevo, Ryazan (1933)^[7][12][29]

Icon gallery

• 
  Collegiate church of San Secondo in Asti.
• 
  St Gwladys in stained glass.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "IN Persia, the holy martyrs Jonas and Barachisius, under Sapor, king of Persia. Jonas, being pressed in a vice till his bones were broken, was cut in twain; Barachisius was suffocated by burning pitch poured into his throat."^[4]
3. Armogastes and Saturus, high officers at the palace, suffered in North Africa during the Arian persecution under the Vandal King Genseric. First they were tortured, then sent to hard labour in the mines, finally condemned to slavery as cowherds near Carthage. They were not put to death 'in case the Romans should venerate them as martyrs'.
4. "In Africa, under the Arian king Genseric, during the persecution of the Vandals, the holy confessors Armogastes, count, Mascula, Archimimus, and Saturus, master of the king's household. Having endured many severe torments, as well as reproaches, for the confession of the truth, they reached the end of their glorious combats."^[4]
5. A favourite disciple and monk of St Columbanus, whom he succeeded as second Abbot of Luxeuil in France. There were some six hundred monks there, many of whom became saints.
6. "St Marko was of the Kyiv Caves Monastery who came to Pskov to establish a similar monastic establishment there. The history of the Pskov Caves relates that many Kyiv Caves monastics came there, although their names are mostly not recorded for posterity. The Pskov Caves Monastery is a "daughter monastery" of the Kyiv Caves."^[28]