March 16 (old calendar) / March 29 (new)

March 16 (old calendar) / March 29 (new) Great Lent. Commemoration of St. Theodore the Recruit and the Miracle of the Boiled Wheat. Martyr Sabinas of Egypt (287). Martyr Papas of Lyconia (305-311). St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516). Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, Bishop of Britain (1st c.). Hieromartyr Alexander, Pope of Rome (119). Martyr Julian of Anazarbus (3rd c.). Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus, of Laodicea (ca. 300). SAINT SABINAS