Saints and Feasts of March 8

On the eighth Theophylaktos went near to God.

Venerable Theophylaktos, Bishop of Nicomedia

Saint Theophylaktos, Bishop of Nicomedia (+ c. 840)

Saint Theophylaktos of Nicomedia as a Model for our Lives

Venerable Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Prusia

Saint Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Prusia

Holy Apostle Hermas of the Seventy

Holy Apostle Hermas of the Seventy

Holy Martyr Dion

Holy Martyr Dion

Venerable Dometios

Venerable Dometios

Saint Pontius of Carthage 

 

Saint Pontius of Carthage

 

 

Saint Felix, Bishop of Dunwich

 

Saint Felix of Burgundy, Bishop of Dunwich, Enlightener of East Anglia (+ 648)

 

Venerable Lazarus of Murom 

 

Saint Lazarus of Murom (+ 1391)

 

 

Commemoration of the Miracle of the Kursk-Root Icon 

of the Mother of God in 1898

 

When Socialist Revolutionaries Tried to Blow Up the Wondwerworking Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God of “the Sign” in 1898