15 Марта 1970 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 15, 1970 (March 2, 1970 by the Julian calendar)
1-st Sunday of the Great Lent, Triumph of Orthodoxy, Tone eight

Great Lent. “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Staromniy, Moscow region (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent). Hieromartyr Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia (315). [.:] St. Arsenius, bishop of Tver (1409). Virgin-martyr Euthalia of Sicily (257). Martyr Troadius of Neo-Caesarea (3rd c.). St. Agatho of Egypt, monk (5th c.). 440 Martyrs slain by the Lombards (579). St. Sabbatius, monk, of Tver (1434), and his disciple St. Euphrosynus (1460). Sts. Barsanuphius (1459) and Sabbas (1467), abbots, of Tver. Appearance of the Kolomenskoye Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, "Reigning" (1917). St. Chad, bishop of Lichtfield, England (672) (Celtic & British). Righteous Father Nicholas Planas (1932) (Greek). St. Quintus of Phrygia, confessor and wonderworker (283) (Greek). Hieromartyrs Nestor the bishop and Tribimius the deacon of Perga in Pamphylia (250). Martyr Hesychius the Palatine of Antioch (304). New Martyr Theodore Sladich of Komogovina (1788). St. Joachim (Papoulakis) of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos and Ithaca (1868).