Holiday / observanceMarch 17

March 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: March 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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When
March 17
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Holiday / observanceA holiday, feast day, awareness day or national day observed every year on this date.
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March 17 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective March 17 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

March 17 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1988Eritrean War of Independence
  2. 1988Colombia
  3. 19921992 South African apartheid referendum
  4. 19921992 Buenos Aires Israeli embassy bombing
  5. 2000Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
  6. 2000Uganda
  7. 2003Leader of the House of Commons
  8. 20042004 unrest in Kosovo
  9. 2011Libyan civil war (2011)
  10. 2016Rojava Revolution

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