Commemoration of Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (167); Saints John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses, and Damian, ascetics near Cyrrhus (5th century); Saint Alexander, founder of the order of the “Unsleeping Ones” (circa 430).
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. Beginning of the Lenten Triodion
Leave-taking (last celebratory day) of the Feast-day of The Meeting of Our Lord.
Commemoration of Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch in Syria (257); Venerable Pancratius of the Distant Caves of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (13th century); Uncovering of the Relics of St. Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk (1805); Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily; Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus; and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina (1st century).