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Meatfare Week · ends March 2
Cheesefare Week · March 3–9
Great Lent · from March 10
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1MF
Memorial Saturday
Martyr Eudoxia of Heliopolis
2MF
Sunday of the Last Judgment
Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of CyreniaThe Four Hundred and Forty Martyrs of Lombardy (579)Holy Martyr Euthalia (257)
3CF
Monday of Cheesefare
Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and BasiliscusAn Unknown Girl in Alexandria (?)
4CF
Cheesefare Tuesday
Ven. Gerasimus of the JordanSt James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th c.)
5CF
Cheesefare Wednesday
Martyr Conon of IsauriaSt Mark of Athens (4th c.)St Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)
6CF
Cheesefare Thursday
Forty-two Martyrs of Ammoria
7CF
Cheesefare Friday
Seven Hieromartyrs of Cherson
8CF
Commemoration of Departed Righteous Monastics
St Theophylactus, Bishop of NicomediaHieromartyr Theodoretus (362)
9CF
4
Forgiveness Sunday
Holy Forty Martyrs of SebasteSt Caesarius (369)
10GL
Beginning of the Great Fast
Martyr Quadratus and CompanionsOur Holy Mother Anastasia (563)
11GL
Tuesday of the First Week of Lent
St Sophronios, patriarch of Jerusalem (638)St John Moschos, author of the Spiritual Meadow (622)Holy Martyr Pionius (250)
12GL
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
No matchVen. Theophanes the ConfessorNo match
13GL
Thursday of the First Week of Lent
Trans. Rel. Nicephorus, Patr. Constantinopole
14GL
Friday of the First Week of Lent
Ven. Benedict of NursiaSt Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)
15GL
St Theodore Tyro (the Recruit)
Martyr Agapius and Seven with HimHoly Martyr Alexander (270-275)
16GL
Sunday of Orthodoxy
Martyr Sabinas of EgyptOur Holy Father Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos (1111)Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Britain (1st c.)
17GL
Monday of the Second Week of Lent
St Alexis, the Man of God (411)St Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (ca. 461)
18GL
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent
St Cyril, Archbishop of JerusalemSt Ananias (Aninus) the Wonderworker (?)Saint Nikolai (Velimirovic), Bishop of Ochrid and Zica, Serbia (1956)(March 5 OC)
19GL
Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent
Martyrs Chrysanthius and Daria
20GL
Thursday of the Second Week of Lent
Holy Fathers Slain at St Sabbas MonasterySt Photine the Samaritan Woman (66)St Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Bishop of Lindisfarne (687)
21GL
Friday of the Second Week of Lent
St James the Confessor of CataniaOur Holy Father Serapion (366)
22GL
Memorial Saturday
Hieromartyr Basil of AncyraMartyr Drosida of Antioch, and five nuns (104)
23GL
St Gregory Palamas
Martyr Nikon and 199 Disciples
24GL
2
Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos
Saint Zacharias the Recluse of Egypt (4th c.)Commemoration of the Miracle at the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev (?)
25GL
6
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent
Annunciation Most Holy TheotokosNew Confessor/Hieromartyr Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow (1925)
26GL
2
Apodosis of the Annunciation of the Theotokos
Leavetaking of Annunciation; Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel
27GL
Thursday of the Third Week of Lent
Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica
28GL
Friday of the Third Week of Lent
Ven. Hilarion the NewRepose of Gerontissa Gavrilia (1992) (March 15 OC)
29GL
Memorial Saturday
Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of AnthusaOur Holy Father John the Hermit (4th c.)
30GL
Veneration of the Precious Cross
Ven. John ClimacusCommemoration of an Uncondemning Monk
31GL
4
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to AmericasHieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra (326)St Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow (1461)