22 Февраля 1999 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, February 22, 1999 (February 9, 1999 by the Julian calendar)
The 1-st week of the Great Lent, Bright Monday, Tone four

Bright Monday. Beginning of the Great Lent. Clean Monday. (On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the 1st week of Great Lent the Great Vespers the canon of St. Andrew of Crete is read). Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch (ca. 257). Uncovering of the relics (1805) of St. Innocent of Irkutsk (1731). New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1930). New Hieromartyr John priest (1938). St. Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). Sts. Gennadius (1516) and Nicephorus (1557), monks, of Vazhe Lake (Vologda). Hieromartyrs Marcellus, bishop of Sicily; Philagrius, bishop of Cyprus; and Pancratius, bishop of Taormina; disciples of Apostle Peter (1st c.). Sts. Aemilianus and Bracchio of Tours (6th c.) (Gaul). St. Teilo, bishop (Llandaff in Wales) (6th c.) (Celtic & British). Martyr Apollonias of Alexandria (249). St. Romanus the Wonderworker of Cilicia (5th c.). Hieromartyr Peter Damascene, bishop of Damascus (743).