Orthodox saints and name days on March 1

Name days on March 1

Eudokia, Eudocia, Efthokia, Docia, Evdokia, Antonina, Domnina, Paraskevas, Paraskeuas, Markellos, Marcellus, Marcel, Charisios, Harisios, Charisius

Saints and feasts of March 1

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  Eudokia

  Holy Woman, Ευδοκία

  St. Eudokia was a Samaritan of Heliopolis in Phoenicia who lived in the early centuries of the Church. Wealthy and famed for her beauty, she was moved to repentance by the words of a monk named Germanos, was baptized, gave her riches to the poor, and entered the monastic life, excelling in fasting and prayer.

  Name days: Eudokia, Eudocia, Efthokia, Docia, Evdokia

• Antonina of Nicaea

  Holy Woman, Αντωνίνα

  St. Antonina was a Christian woman of Nicaea in Bithynia who suffered during the persecutions of the early fourth century. Brought before the governor for refusing to sacrifice to idols, she was subjected to torture and imprisonment, and tradition relates that she was finally sewn into a sack and cast into a lake.

  Name days: Antonina

• Domnina the New

  Holy Woman, Δομνίνα

  St. Domnina the New was an ascetic of Syria in the fifth century, known from the writings of Theodoret of Cyrrhus. She lived in a small hut of reeds in her mother's garden, spending her days in prayer and tears, eating only lentils and wearing a rough garment that hid her face.

  Name days: Domnina

• Paraskevas of Trebizond

  Martyr, Παρασκευάς

  St. Paraskevas was a Christian of Trebizond on the Black Sea who lived under Ottoman rule. Tradition relates that he was falsely accused before the Turkish authorities and pressed to deny his faith, but refused every inducement and threat.

  Name days: Paraskevas, Paraskeuas

• Markellos and Antonios of Syria

  Martyr, Μάρκελλος

  Sts. Markellos and Antonios were martyrs of Syria whose memory the synaxaria preserve with few details. Tradition relates that they confessed Christ before the pagan authorities and, refusing to renounce Him, were cast into fire and so received the crown of martyrdom.

  Name days: Markellos, Marcellus, Marcel

• Charisios, Nikephoros and Agapios

  Martyr, Χαρίσιος

  Sts. Charisios, Nikephoros and Agapios were martyrs of the early Church whose names are preserved in the Greek synaxaria for March 1. Tradition relates that they were put to the sword for their confession of Christ.

  Name days: Charisios, Harisios, Charisius

• David of Wales

  Hierarch, Δαβίδ της Ουαλίας

  St. David (Dewi) was a bishop of the sixth century in Wales, the founder of the monastery at Menevia (now St. Davids) and the most celebrated of the Welsh saints. Tradition relates that he lived with great austerity, drinking only water and laboring with his monks in the fields, and that he preached with such power at the Synod of Brefi that he was acknowledged as chief among the bishops of Wales.