March 24 (old calendar) /  April 6 (new)

March 24 (old calendar) /  April 6 (new) Great Lent Oil and wine allowed Forefeast of the Annunciation Because of the Forefeast of the Annunciation this Saturday the service for the departed is not conducted. Ven. Zachariah the Recluse. St. Artemius (Artemon), Bishop of Seleucia (1st-2nd c.). Ven. Zachariah, Ascetic, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th-14th c.). Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan’ (1552). St. James (Jacob, Iago) the Confessor,