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+ Days highlighted in green are major feast days. Their apolytikia and kontakia are ready now. Music for the other troparia (doxastica, idiomela, etc.) on these days might be ready by March of 2009.
+ Days highlighted in blue are minor feast days. Their apolytikia are ready now. Music for the rest of the troparia on these days should be ready in 2010.
+ Days not highlighted are minor days without doxastica. Their apolytikia are ready now.
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| 1 - St. Eudocia the Samaritan | ||
| 2 - St. Hesychius | ||
| 3 - Sts. Eutropius, Cleonicus, and Basiliscus | ||
| 4 - St. Gerasimus of the Jordan | ||
| 5 - St. Conon | ||
| 6 - The Holy 42 Martyrs of Amorion | ||
| 7 - Sts. Basileus, Ephraim, Eugene, Capito, Aetherius, Agathodorus, and Elpidius | ||
| 8 - St. Theophylact the Confessor | ||
| 9 - The Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebastia | ||
| 10 - St. Quadratus | ||
| 11 - St. Sophronius, Archbishop of Jerusalem | ||
| 12 - St. Gregory the Great, Pope of Rome | ||
| 12 - St. Theophanes the Confessor | ||
| 12 - St. Symeon the New Theologian | ||
| 13 - Translation of the Relics of St. Nicephorus | ||
| 14 - St. Benedict | ||
| 15 - Apostle Aristobulus | ||
| 15 - St. Agapius | ||
| 16 - St. Sabine of Egypt | ||
| 16 - St. Christodulus of Patmos | ||
| 17 - St. Alexis the Man of God | ||
| 17 - St. Patrick of Ireland | ||
| 18 - St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem | ||
| 19 - Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria | ||
| 20 - Fathers of St. Sabbas Monastery | ||
| 20 - St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne | ||
| 21 - St. James the Confessor | ||
| 22 - St. Basil, Presbyter of the Church of Ancyra | ||
| 23 - St. Nicon and His 199 Disciples | ||
| 24 - Forefeast of the Annunciation | ||
| 24 - St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow | ||
| 25 - Annunciation of the Theotokos | ||
| 26 - Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel | ||
| 27 - St. Matrona of Thessalonica | ||
| 28 - St. Hilarion the New | ||
| 29 - Sts. Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, and Cyril the Deacon | ||
| 30 - St. John of Sinai, Author of The Ladder | ||
| 31 - St. Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra | ||
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To download all music for March in Byzantine notation, click here (84 pages, 6.0 Mb)
To download all apolytikia in Byzantine notation for the entire year, click here (1467 pages)
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While the music is copyright St. Anthony’s Monastery, the texts are copyright Holy Transfiguration Monastery, and may not be further distributed or used in sound or print publications or otherwise without the prior written permission of Holy Transfiguration Monastery.
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