March 11 (old calendar) /  March 24 (new)         

March 11 (old calendar) /  March 24 (new) SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 2. St. Gregory Palamas. St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (638-644). St. Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod (1458). Hieromartyr Pionius of Smyrna and those with him: Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus, and Sabina (250). Translation of the Relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium. St. Sophronius, Bishop of Vracha (Bulgaria—1813). Ven. Sophronii, Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th c.). ST GREGORY PALAMAS’S