8 Марта 1942 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 8, 1942 (February 23, 1942 by the Julian calendar)
The 3-rd Sunday of the Great Lent, Adoration of Cross, Tone six

Great Lent. Hieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167). New Hieromartyrs Alexis, Nicolos priests amd Martyr Sergius (1938). St. Polycarp, monk, of Briansk (1620-21). Sts. John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses, and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian desert (5th c.). St. Alexander, founder of the order of the Unsleeping Ones (430). St. Moses, monk, of White Lake (1480). St. Gorgonia, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian (372) (Greek). St. Damian of Esphigmenou, Mt. Athos (1280) (Greek). New Monk-martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568) (Greek). St. John the Harvester of Stylos in Calabria (11th c.). St. Cosmas of Zographou, Mt. Athos (1281). New Hieromartyr Lazarus of the Peloponnese (1618).