March 4 (old calendar) / March 1...
March 4 (old calendar) / March 17 (new) Great Lent FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 1. Sunday of Orthodoxy Ven. Gerasimus of the Jordan (475). Ven. Gerá...
Living with the Church
March 6 (old calendar) / March 1...
March 6 (old calendar) / March 19 (new) Great Lent The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetitus, Theophilus, Theodore, Mel...
March 19
March 19 Great Lent Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them at Rome: Claudius, Hilaria, Jason, Maurus, Diodorus the Presbyter, and Maria...
March 19 Great Lent Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them at Rome: Claudius, Hilaria, Jason, Maurus, Diodorus the Presbyter, and Maria...
March 5 (old calendar) / March 1...
March 5 (old calendar) / March 18 (new) Great Lent Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st c.). Finding of the Relics of Rt. Blv. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk...
March 5 (old calendar) / March 18 (new) Great Lent Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st c.). Finding of the Relics of Rt. Blv. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk...
March 18
March 18 Great Lent Repose of St. Nikolai of Zhicha (1956). St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem (386). Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpus of Nicomedia (...
March 18 Great Lent Repose of St. Nikolai of Zhicha (1956). St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem (386). Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpus of Nicomedia (...
March 17
March 17 Great Lent FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 1. Sunday of Orthodoxy. Ven. Aleksy (Alexius) the Man of God (411). Ven. Macarius, Abbot and Wonder...
March 3 (old calendar) / March 1...
March 3 (old calendar) / March 16 (new) Great Lent. Oil and wine allowed Martyr Eutropius of Amasea, and with him Martyrs Cleonicus and Basiliscus ...
March 16
March 16 Great Lent. Oil and wine allowed First Saturday of Great Lent Commemoration of St. Theodore the Recruit and the Miracle of the Boiled Whea...
March 2 (old calendar) / March 1...
March 2 (old calendar) / March 15 (new) Great Lent Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia (ca. 320). St. Arsenius, Bishop of Tver’ (1409). Virgin...
March 15
March 15 Great Lent Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pausis), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Cæsarea in Palestine (30...
March 1st (old calendar) / March...
March 1st (old calendar) / March 14 (new) Great Lent Martyr Eudoxia of Heliopolis (ca. 160-170). Ven. Martyrii (Martyrius) of Zelenétsk (Pskov—1603...
March 14
March 14 Great Lent Ven. Benedict of Nursia (543). St. Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia (1353). Rt. Blv. Great Prince Rostilav (Mic...
February 28 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 28 (old calendar) / March 13 (new) Great Lent Ven. Basil the Confessor, Companion of Ven. Procopius at Decapolis (750). Bl. Nikolai, Fool-...
March 13
March 13 Great Lent Translation of the relics of St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (846). Martyr Sabinus (Abibus) of Egypt (287). Marty...
February 27 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 27 (old calendar) / March 12 (new) Great Lent. Repose of St. Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn (1915). Ven. Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis...
March 12
March 12 Great Lent. Ven. Theophanes the Confessor, of Sigriane (818). Righteous Phineas, grandson of Aaron (ca. 1500 B.C.). St. Gregory Dialogus, ...
February 26 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 26 (old calendar) / March 11 (new) Beginning of the Great Fast. St. Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza (420). Ven. Sebastian of Poshekhónsk (ca. ...
March 11
March 11 Beginning of the Great Fast. St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (638-644). St. Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod (1458). Hieromartyr Pioni...
February 25 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 25 (old calendar) / March 10 (new) SUNDAY OF CHEESEFARE — Tone 8. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. St. Tarasius, Archbishop of...
March 10
March 10 SUNDAY OF CHEESEFARE — Tone 8. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. Martyr Quadratus and those with him: Cyprian, Dionysius, Anect...
February 24 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 24 (old calendar) / March 9 (new) Cheesefare week Saturday of Cheesefare — Commemoration of All Departed Righteous Monastics. First (4th c...
March 9
March 9 Cheesefare week Saturday of Cheesefare — Commemoration of All Departed Righteous Monastics. The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste: Cyrion (or Q...
February 23 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 23 (old calendar) / March 8 (new) Cheesefare week Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (167). Ven. Polycarp of Briansk (1620-1621). Ven....
March 8
March 8 Cheesefare week St. Theophylactus, Bishop of Nicomedia (842-845). Ven. Lazarus (1391) and Athanasius (15th c.), of Múrom. Apostle Hermas of...
February 22 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 22 (old calendar) / March 7 (new) Uncovering of the Relics of the Holy Martyrs at the Gate of Eugenius at Constantinople (395-423). Martyr...
March 7
March 7 Cheesefare week The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathodorus (4th c.). Ven. Paul ...
February 21 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 21 (old calendar) / March 6 (new) Cheesefare week Ven. Timothy of Symbola in Bithynia (9th c.). St. Eustathius (Eustace), Archbishop of An...
March 6
March 6 Cheesefare week The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetitus, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoës ...
February 20 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 20 (old calendar) / March 5 (new) Cheesefare week. St. Leo, Bishop of Catania in Sicily (ca. 780). Ven. Agafón (Agathon), Wonderworker of ...
March 5
March 5 Cheesefare week Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st c.). Finding of the Relics of Rt. Blv. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl’, and his ch...
February 19 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 19 (old calendar) / March 4 (new) Cheesefare week Apostles of the Seventy Archippus (Arkhipp) and Philemon, and Martyr Apphias (1st c.). ...
March 4
March 4 Cheesefare week Ven. Gerasimus of the Jordan (475). Ven. Gerásim of Vologdá (1178). Ven. Joasaph of Snetogórsk (Pskov—1299). Rt. Blv. Princ...
February 18 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 18 (old calendar) / March 3 (new) SUNDAY OF MEATFARE — Tone 7. Sunday of the Last Judgment. St. Leo the Great, Pope of Rome (461). Ven Cos...
March 3
March 3 SUNDAY OF MEATFARE — Tone 7. Sunday of the Last Judgment. Martyr Eutropius of Amasea, and with him Martyrs Cleonicus and Basiliscus (ca. 30...
February 17 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 17 (old calendar) / March 2 (new) Saturday of Meatfare Week — Memorial Saturday. Greatmartyr Theodore the Tyro ( (“the Recruit”—ca. 306)....
March 2
March 2 Saturday of Meatfare Week — Memorial Saturday. Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia (ca. 320). St. Arsenius, Bishop of Tver’ (1409). Vi...
February 16 (old calendar) / Mar...
February 16 (old calendar) / March 1st (new) Fast St. Nicholas, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop of Japan (1912). Martyrs Pamphilius—Presbyte...
March 1st
March 1st Martyr Eudoxia of Heliopolis (ca. 160-170). Ven. Martyrii (Martyrius) of Zelenétsk (Pskov—1603). Martyrs Nestor and Tribimius (3rd c.). M...
February 15 (old calendar) / Feb...
February 15 (old calendar) / February 28 (new) Apostle of the Seventy Onesimus (ca. 109). Ven. Paphnútii (Paphnutius), Recluse, of the Kiev Caves ...
February 28
February 28 Ven. Basil the Confessor, Companion of Ven. Procopius at Decapolis (750). Bl. Nikolai, Fool-for-Christ at Pskov (1576). Hieromartyr Pro...
