5 Марта 1979 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, March 5, 1979 (February 20, 1979 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). St. Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily (ca. 780). Abbot Macarius and 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery martyred by the Lutherans: hieromonk Titus, schemamonk Tikhon, monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Silvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Simonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, and Serapion, and novices Varlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John (1578). St. Agatho, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (13th-l4th c.). Beheading of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov Caves (1570), and his disciple St. Bassian of Murom. Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (342). St. Agatho, pope of Rome (682). St. Bessarion the Great, wonderworker of Egypt (466) (Greek). St. Cindeus, bishop of Pisidia (Greek). Hieromartyr Eleutherius, bishop in Byzantium (2nd c.). St. Eleutherius, bishop of Tournai (531). St. Eucherius, bishop of Orleans (740).