Third Sunday of Great Lent, Veneration of the Holy Cross

Commemoration of Venerable George, confessor, bishop of Mitylene (circa 820); Faithful Het’man Peter (Konashevych-Sahaidachnyj) (1622); Martyr Calliopus at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304); Martyrs Rufinus deacon, Aquilina, and 200 soldiers at Sinope (310); Venerable Serapion of Egypt, monk.