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Sunday March 15, 2026 / March 2, 2026

Third Sunday of the Great Lent: Adoration of Cross. Tone seven.

Great Lent. Food with Oil

Calculated: Food with Oil (f4)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Hieromartyr Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia (315). primary
  2. St. Chad, bishop of Lichtfield, England (672) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  3. Appearance of the Kolomenskoye Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, "Reigning" (1917).
  4. St. Arsenius, bishop of Tver (1409).
  5. Virgin-martyr Euthalia of Sicily (257).
  6. Martyr Troadius of Neo-Caesarea (3rd c.).
  7. Venerable Agatho of Egypt, monk (5th c.).
  8. 440 Martyrs slain by the Lombards (579).
  9. St. Sabbatius, monk, of Tver (1434), and his disciple St. Euphrosynus (1460).
  10. Sts. Barsanuphius (1459) and Sabbas (1467), abbots, of Tver.
  11. St. Quintus of Phrygia, confessor and wonderworker (283) (Greek).
  12. Martyr Andronicus and the virgin Athanasia (Greek).
  13. Hieromartyrs Nestor the bishop and Tribimius the deacon of Perga in Pamphylia (250).
  14. Martyr Hesychius the Palatine of Antioch (304).
  15. New Martyr Theodore Sladich of Komogovina (1788).
  16. St. Joachim (Papoulakis) of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos and Ithaca (1868).

Scripture

  • John 20:1-10 - (7th Matins Gospel)
  • Hebrews 4:14-5:6
  • Mark 8:34-9:1