Commemoration of Holy Martyr Nikon and with him 199 disciples in Sicily (251); Venerable Nikon, abbot of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (1088); Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, his sons notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (117-138).
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Second Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (4th century); Synaxis [Meeting] of All Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves Abbey; Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain (1st century); Martyr Sabinas of Hermopolis, Egypt (287); Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305); Hieromartyr Alexander, pope of Rome (119); Martyr Julian of Anazarbus (305); Martyrs Trophimus and Thalus of Laodicea (circa 300);
First Sunday of Great Lent, Celebration of The Sunday of Orthodoxy
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
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).
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).
Thirty-second Sunday after Pentecost, The Meeting of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Thirty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Venerable Xenophon, his wife Mary, and their sons, Aracadius and John of Constantinople (5th-6th centuries); Martyrs Ananias the priest, Peter the prison guard, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia (295); St. Symeon ‘the ancient’ of Mt. Sinai (circa 390); Translation [moving] of the relics (845) of St. Theodore, abbot of the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople (845); St. Joseph, archbishop of Thessalonica (830); Faithful David III the Restorer, king of Iberia and Abkhazia (1125, Georgia).
Thirtieth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Saint Macarius the Great of Egypt (390); Saint Mark, bishop of Ephesus (1444); Saint Macarius of the Near Caves of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (12th century); Saint Macarius, deacon, of the Distant Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (13th – 14th century); Virgin-martyr Euphrasia of Nicomedia (303); Saint Macarius of Alexandria (394); Saint Arsenius, archbishop of Kerkyra (Corfu) (953); Venerable Anton of Martkophi, The Stylite (6th c., Georgia); Venerable Lavrentiy of Chernihiv (1950).