Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Fast); Hieromartyr Januarius, bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proculus, and Sosius deacons, Desiderius reader, and Eutychius and Acutius laymen, at Pozzuoli (circa 305); Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, and his mother Philippa, and Martyrs Dioscurus, Socrates, and Dionysius (II century); Martyrs Isaacius, Apollo, and Codratus of Nicomedia (303); Saint Maximian, patriarch of Constantinople (434).
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder
Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder/Climax [Listvychnyk], (movable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent); Saint Martin the Confessor, pope of Rome (655); Martyr Ardalion the Actor (305-311); Martyr Azat the Eunuch and 1,000 Martyrs in Persia (circa 341); Martyrs Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Vilna in Lithuania (1347).
Third Sunday of Great Lent, Veneration of the Holy Cross
Commemoration of Venerable George, confessor, bishop of Mitylene (circa 820); Faithful Het’man Peter (Konashevych-Sahaidachnyj) (1622); Martyr Calliopus at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304); Martyrs Rufinus deacon, Aquilina, and 200 soldiers at Sinope (310); Venerable Serapion of Egypt, monk.
First Sunday of Great Lent. Celebration of The Sunday of Orthodoxy. Fore-feast of the Annunciation of The Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos (Mother-of-God).
Commemoration of Venerable Zachariah the Recluse of Egypt (IV century); St. Artemius, Bishop of Seleucia (I cent.); Venerable Zachariah of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (XIII-XIV cent.); Venerable James the Confessor, Bishop of Catania (802-811).
Cheesefare Sunday, Forgiveness Sunday, Commemoration of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, the sinfulness of man, and the need for forgiveness.
Commemoration of Venerable Alexius, the Man of God (411); Martyr Marinus of Caesarea (260); Saint Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (4-5 centuries). Last day before Great Lent.
Meatfare Sunday, of the Last Judgement
Commemoration of Martyr Quadratus and with him Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens, Dionysius, Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias, Leonidas, Chariessa, Nunechia, Basilissa, Nice, Galla, Galina, Theodora, and others at Corinth (258); Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus of Nicomedia (III century); Venerable Anastasia (567-568).
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Commemoration of Martyr Eutropius of Amasea, and with him Martyrs Cleonicus and Basiliscus (c. 308); Venerable Piama, virgin, and Alexandra, of Alexandria (337); Righteous Zeno and Zoilus.
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee Beginning of the Lenten Triodion
Commemoration of Saint Tarasius, archbishop of
Constantinople (806).
Thirty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost Sunday of Zacchaeus
Commemoration of Saint Leo the Great, Pope of Rome (461); Saint Agapitus, bishop of Synnada (IV century); Saint Flavian the confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (circa 449): Venerable Kosma of Yakhroma (1492).
Thirty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste (circa 316); Blessed Prince Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel) of Pskov (1138); Saint Demetrius, monk of Priluki (1392); Righteous Theodora, Empress of Greece, who renewed the veneration of the holy icons (867).