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Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 8 (March 7) by Old Calendarists

SAINTS

Hieromartyr Polycarp Of Smyrna , Bishop ( 167 )

Saint s John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, another Moses, and Damian, ascetics of the Syria n desert ( 5th Century )

Saint Alexander, founder of the order of the Unsleeping Ones ( 431 )

Saint Gorgonia , sister of Saint Gregory The Theologian ( 372 )

Saint Damian of Esphigmenou Skete on Mount Athos ( 14th Century )

Saint Moses of White Lake, Monk ( 15th Century )

Saint Polycarp Of Briansk , monk ( 1499 )

Martyr Damian, monk of Mount Athos, who suffered at Larissa ( 1658 )

Martyr Clement

Martyr Thea

OTHER COMMEMORATIONS

Repose of Abbot Nazarius of Valaam ( 1809 )