Commemoration of Saint Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily (circa 780); Hieromartyr Sadoc, bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (342); Saint Agatho, pope of Rome (682); Venerable Prince Yaroslav the Wise (1054); Saint Agatho, wonderworker of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (13th–14th century).
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Cheesefare Sunday, Forgiveness Sunday, Commemoration of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, the sinfulness of man, and the need for forgiveness.
Meatfare Sunday, of the Last Judgement;
Afterfeast of the Meeting
Commemoration of Venerable Bucolus, bishop of Smyrna (circa 100); Virgin-martyr Dorothea, and with her Martyrs Christina and Callista, sisters, and Theophilus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (288-300); Martyr Julian (312); Virgin-martyrs Martha and Mary, and their brother Martyr Lycarion, in Egypt; Venerable Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet, monks of Palestine (6th century); Saint Photius, patriarch of Constantinople (891).
Sunday of the Prodigal1 Son, Synaxis (Meeting) of the Three Hierarchs: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom
Commemoration Hieromartyr Hippolytus, pope of Rome, and with him Martyrs Censorinus, Sabinus, and others (269); St. Zeno, hermit and disciple of St. Basil the Great (414); Martyr Theophilus the New (784); St. Peter, king of Bulgaria (967); St. Zeno the Faster, of the Distant Caves at the Kyiv Caves Abbey (14th century).