March 23

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Feasts

St. Lydia the Martyr
New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver

Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125) (see also March 27); Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251); Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361); Saint Victorian, Frumentius and Companions (484); Saint Gwinear of Cornwall (5th century); Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th century); Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North Africa; Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th century); Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy, miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550); Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne for twelve years (699); Saint Felix of Montecassino (c. 1000); Venerable Nicon, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1088); Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th century); Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384); Saint Bassian, Archbishop of Rostov (1481); Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Totma, Russia (1568) (see also January 28); Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1600) (see also March 22); New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802); New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820) (see also April 5); Saint Elena (Bakhteiv), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834); New Hieromartyr Macarius (Kvitkin), Protopresbyter of Orenburg (1931); New Hieromartyr Elijah (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos (Vladimir) (1938); New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklyn, and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938); New Martyr James (1938); Virgin-martyr Anastasia Bobkova (1938); Martyr Alexis Skorobogatov (1938); New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948); Other Commemorations: Repose of Elder Porphyrius of Glinsk Hermitage (1868).