12 Марта 1854 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 12, 1854 (February 28, 1854 by the Julian calendar)
1-st Sunday of the Great Lent, Triumph of Orthodoxy, Tone five

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). St. Basil the Confessor (747), companion of St. Procopius at Decapolis. St. Arsenius (Matsievich), metropolitan of Rostov, confessor (1772). Blessed Nicholas of Pskov, fool-for-Christ (1576). Hieromartyr Proterius, patriarch of Alexandria, and six companions (457). Hieromartyr Nestor, bishop of Magydos in Pamphylia (250). Sts. Marana, Cyanna (Kyra), and Domnica (Domnina), nuns, of Syria (ca. 450). Apostles Nymphas and Eubulus. St. Shio of Georgia, monk (Georgia). St. Romanus, desert-dweller of Condat in the Jura Mountains (460) (Gaul). New Virgin-martyr Kyranna of Thessalonica (1751) (Greek). St. Barsus of Damascus, bishop (Greek).