Saints of the day
Orthodox saints of March 30
The feasts and saints the Orthodox Church commemorates on March 30 — on the Old Calendar, civil April 12.
Commemorated on March 30
- St. John Climacus, author of the Ladder
St. John Climacus
Abbot of Sinai (7th c.), author of 'The Ladder of Divine Ascent' — thirty steps from renunciation to love — read in every monastery each Lent. The Church remembers him on Lent's fourth Sunday.
When it falls
- New Calendar: March 30 every year
- Old Calendar: civil April 12
Commemorations follow the Menaion of the Orthodox Church. New Calendar parishes keep them on the date shown; Old Calendar parishes keep them 13 days later on the civil calendar. Local churches add their own saints — your parish calendar comes first.