12 Марта 1883 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, March 12, 1883 (February 28, 1883 by the Julian calendar)
The 1-st week of the Great Lent, Bright Monday, Tone eight

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. 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).