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Wednesday March 18, 2026 / March 5, 2026

Fourth Week of the Great Lent: Adoration of Cross. Tone seven.

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Calculated: Strict Fast (f2)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. Martyr Conon of Isauria (2nd c.). primary
  2. Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, prince of Smolensk and Yaroslav (1299), and his children Sts. David (1321) and Constantine. primary
  3. St. Kieran (Ciaran) of Saigher, Munster (Ireland) (5th-6th c.) (Celtic & British). westernBritain and Ireland
  4. Monk-martyr Adrian, abbot of Poshekhonye (1550) and his fellow-ascetic St. Leonidas (1549).
  5. Martyr Onisius of Isauria (2nd c.).
  6. Martyr Conon the Gardener of Pamphylia (251).
  7. Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoe in Egypt (3rd c.) and with her Martyr Archelaus and 152 Martyrs in Egypt.
  8. Martyr Eulogius of Palestine.
  9. Martyr Eulampius of Palestine.
  10. Venerable Mark the Faster of Egypt (5th c.).
  11. Venerable Hesychius the Faster of Bithynia (790).
  12. "Nurtured Up-Bringing" Icon of the Mother of God.
  13. St. Nicholas (1919).
  14. New Hieromartyr John priest and New Hieromartyrs Mardarius and Theophanes (1938).
  15. St. Nicholas (Velimirovich), bishop of Ochrid and Zhicha, Serbia (1956) (Serbia).
  16. Uncovering of the relics (1996) of St. Luke, hierarch-surgeon of Simferopol (1961).
  17. New Martyr John the Bulgarian (Mt. Athos), at Constantinople (1784) (Greek).
  18. Martyr Archelaus and 152 Martyrs in Egypt.
  19. St. Theophilus, bishop of Caesaria in Palestine (200).
  20. St. Virgil, archbishop of Arles (618).
  21. Sts. Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl.
  22. New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805).
  23. New Martyr George of Rapsana (1818).
  24. St. Piran, mont of Perranporth.

Scripture

  • Isaiah 26:21-27:9 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 9:18-10:1 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 12:23-13:9 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)