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).