Commemoration of Venerable John of the Ladder/Climax [Listvychnyk],
(movable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent); Translation (moving) of the relics (846) of St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (829); Martyr Sabinus (Abibus) of Egypt (303); Martyrs Africanus, Publius, and Terence of Carthage (3rd century); Martyr Alexander of Macedonia (305); Martyr Christina of Persia (4th century); Venerable Aninas the Presbyter of the Euphrates.
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
Third Sunday of Great Lent
Veneration of the Holy Cross
Commemoration of The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetius, Callistus, Basoes, and others (845); Monk-martyrs Conon and his son Conon (270-275); The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress Saint Helen (326); Saint Arcadius, monk, of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Bulius.
Second Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas,Archbishop of Thessalonica (4th сentury); Synaxis [Meeting] of All Venerable Fathers of the Kyivan Caves Abbey; Saint Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis (circa 750); Saint Thalelaeus, hermit of Syria (460); Saint Titus, in the Near Caves, presbyter of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (1190); Saint Titus the Soldier, monk, in the Distant Caves in the Kyivan Caves Abbey (14th century).
First Sunday of The Great Fast Celebration of The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Commemoration of Saint Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily (circa 780); Hieromartyr Sadoc, bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (342); Saint Agatho, pope of Rome (682); Venerable Prince Yaroslav the Wise (1054); Saint Agatho, wonderworker of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (13th–14th century).