15 Марта 1948 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, March 15, 1948 (March 2, 1948 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). Hieromartyr Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia (315). [.:] St. Arsenius, bishop of Tver (1409). Virgin-martyr Euthalia of Sicily (257). Martyr Troadius of Neo-Caesarea (3rd c.). St. Agatho of Egypt, monk (5th c.). 440 Martyrs slain by the Lombards (579). St. Sabbatius, monk, of Tver (1434), and his disciple St. Euphrosynus (1460). Sts. Barsanuphius (1459) and Sabbas (1467), abbots, of Tver. Appearance of the Kolomenskoye Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, "Reigning" (1917). St. Chad, bishop of Lichtfield, England (672) (Celtic & British). Righteous Father Nicholas Planas (1932) (Greek). St. Quintus of Phrygia, confessor and wonderworker (283) (Greek). Hieromartyrs Nestor the bishop and Tribimius the deacon of Perga in Pamphylia (250). Martyr Hesychius the Palatine of Antioch (304). New Martyr Theodore Sladich of Komogovina (1788). St. Joachim (Papoulakis) of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos and Ithaca (1868).