Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Fast); The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St.Sabbas: Saints John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796); Martyr Photina the Samaritan Woman and her sons: Martyrs Victor named Photinos, and Josiah with Anatolia, Photo, Photida, Paraskeva, Kyriakia, Domnina and Sebastian (66); Virginmartyrs of Amisus: Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia (310); Saint Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813).