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Thursday March 19, 2026 / March 6, 2026

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

Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil

Calculated: Food without Oil (f3)

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Fasting Season

  • Great Lent

Saints

  1. The 42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia, including: Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others (845). primary
  2. Venerable Job (Joshua in Schema) of Solovki (1720).
  3. The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress St. Helen (326).
  4. Monk-martyrs Conon and his son Conon of Iconium (270-275).
  5. Venerable Arcadius, monk, of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Bulius.
  6. Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Chenstokhovskaya", "Shestokhov" ("Hearth"). "Blessed Heaven" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in Moscow.
  7. Translation of the relics (1230) of Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria (1229).
  8. Venerable Fridolin, abbot, enlightener of the Upper Rhine (538).
  9. Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (304).
  10. Translation of the relics Sts. Cyneswitha and Cyneburga, abbesses of Caistor, and St. Tibba, nun, of Rynall.
  11. Monk-martyr Maximus (Greek).
  12. Martyr Euphrosynus (Greek).
  13. Martyrs Julian and Eubulus (Greek).
  14. St. Hesychius the Wonderworker, monk (Greek).

Scripture

  • Isaiah 28:14-22 - (6th Hour)
  • Genesis 10:32-11:9 - (Vespers, 1st Reading)
  • Proverbs 13:19-14:6 - (Vespers, 2nd Reading)