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Tuesday March 03, 2026 / February 18, 2026

Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone five.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. St. Leo the Great, pope of Rome (461). primary
  2. St. Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne (676) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. Venerable Cosmas, monk, of Yakhromsk (1492).
  4. St. Agapitus, bishop of Synnada in Phrygia (4th c.).
  5. St. Flavian the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (449).
  6. New Hieromartyrs Alexander (Medvedsky) (1932) priest and Benjamin hieromonk (1938).
  7. Commemoration of the New Martyrs who suffered during the "Holy Night" in St. Petersburg (1932).
  8. New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1933).
  9. Virgin-martyr Anna (1940).
  10. Martyrs Victor, Dorotheus, Theodulus, and Agrippa, who suffered under Licinius (4th c.).
  11. Martyrs Leo and Parigorius of Patara of Lycia (258) (Greek).
  12. St. Blaise, monk of Mt. Athos (9th c.).
  13. Finding of relics (1961) of New Martyr Irene of Lesbos (1463).
  14. St. Nicholas The Catholicos of Georgia (1591) (Georgia).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 5:7-16 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 4:8-15 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 5:1-15 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)