12 Марта 1840 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, March 12, 1840 (February 29, 1840 by the Julian calendar)
1^st Week of the Great Lent, Tone eight

Great Lent. St. John Cassian the Roman, abbot (435). St. John, called Barsanuphius, of Nitria in Egypt (5th c.). Martyr Theoctyrist [Theostyrictus] (8th C). "Devpeteruv" (1392) Icon of the Mother of God. St. Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (12th c.). St. Oswald, archbishop of York (992) (Celtic & British). St. Germanus of Dacia Pontica (Dobrogea, Romania) (5th c.) (Romania). St. Theosterictus the Confessor, abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (826). St. Cassian of Mu Lake Hermitage, disciple of St. Alexander of Svir (16th c.). St. Meletius, archbishop of Kharkov (1840).