Synaxis of all the saints who shone forth in Laconia.
On this day the Church of Laconia in the Peloponnese gathers in one commemoration all the saints who were born, labored or were martyred in that region, from the early centuries through the New Martyrs of the Ottoman period.
The synaxis was established in recent years by the local metropolis and is kept on March 8.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Synaxis of the Saints of Laconia is commemorated on March 8. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on March 21 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on March 8
Zacharias
Prophet, Ζαχαρίας
Prophet Zacharias, father of John the Baptist.
Name days: Zacharias, Zach, Zachary, Zacharoula
Theophylaktos of Nicomedia
Hierarch, Θεοφύλακτος
Saint Theophylaktos, Bishop of Nicomedia, confessor against iconoclasm.
Name days: Theofylaktos, Theophylaktos, Theophylact, Theofilaktos
Paul of Plousias
Hierarch, Παύλος ο Ομολογητής
Saint Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Plousias in Bithynia.
Hermes the Apostle
Apostle, Ερμής
Holy Apostle Hermes of the Seventy, greeted by Saint Paul in the Epistle to the Romans.
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