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Saturday March 14, 2026 / March 1, 2026

Third Saturday of the Great Lent. Tone six.

Great Lent. Food with Oil

Calculated: Food with Oil (f4)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Remembrance

  • 3rd Saturday of the Great Lent

Saints

  1. Parents’ Saturday. Remembrance of the dead. primary
  2. Martyr Eudocia of Heliopolis (152). primary
  3. St. David of Wales, bishop (6th c.) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  4. Venerable Martyrius, abbot of Zelenets (Tikhvin) (1603).
  5. Martyrs Nestor, Tribimius, Marcellus, and Anthony of Perge in Pamphylia (3rd c.).
  6. Martyr Antonina of Nicaea in Bithynia (284-305).
  7. Venerable Domnina of Syria (450-460).
  8. New Hieromartyr Olga (1937).
  9. New Hieromartyrs Basil, Peter, John, Benjamin, Michael priests, New Hieromartyr Anthony, Virgin-martyrs Anna, Daria, Eudokia, Olga, Alexandra, Matrona, Martyr Basil, Virgin-martyr Nadezhda (1938).
  10. New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1942).
  11. New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1943).
  12. New Hieromartyrs Abbess Antonina of Kizliar (1924), Methodius (1920) and Anastasia Andreyevna, fool-for-Christ.
  13. Venerable Agapius of Vatopedi Skete of Kolitsou, Mt. Athos, and his four companions.
  14. Venerable Swidbert, monastic founder on the Rhine River (713).
  15. St. Albinus, bishop of Angers (550).
  16. St. Leo-Luke of Corleone, Sicily (900).
  17. New Martyr Paraskevas of Trebizond (1659).
  18. Martyrs Sophronius and Silvester (Greek).
  19. Martyrs Charisius, Nicephorus, and Agapius (Greek).

Scripture

  • Hebrews 10:32-38
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 - (Departed)
  • Mark 2:14-17
  • John 5:24-30 - (Departed)