Saints of the day
Orthodox saints of March 9
The feasts and saints the Orthodox Church commemorates on March 9 — on the Old Calendar, civil March 22.
Commemorated on March 9
- The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Forty soldiers (†320) left naked on a frozen lake to renounce Christ. A warm bathhouse glowed on the shore; one broke — and a guard, seeing forty crowns descending, took his place.
When it falls
- New Calendar: March 9 every year
- Old Calendar: civil March 22
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.