Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

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).