16 Февраля 1942 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, February 16, 1942 (February 3, 1942 by the Julian calendar)
The 1-st week of the Great Lent, Bright Monday, Tone three

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). Afterfeast of the Meeting of Our Lord. [.:] Holy and Righteous Symeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess (1st c.). St. Nicholas, enlightener of Japan (1912). New Hieromartyr John, Timothy priest amd Martyr Vladimir (1938). St. Symeon, first bishop of Tver and Polotsk (1289). St. Romanus, prince of Uglich (1285). Prophet Azarias (10th c.B.C.). Martyrs Papias, Diodorus, and Claudianus at Perge in Pamphylia (250). Martyrs Adrian and Eubulus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (310). Martyr Blaise of Caesarea in Cappadocia (3rd c.). St. Ansgar, bishop of Hamburg, enlightener of Denmark and Sweden (865). St. Laurence of Canterbury, bishop (619) (Celtic & British). St. Werburga of Chester, abbess (700) (Celtic & British). St. James, archbishop of Serbia (1292) (Serbia). Martyrs Paul and Symeon, and Martyr Paul the Syrian, who suffered under Diocletian (4th c.). St. Sviatoslav-Gabriel and his son St. Dimitry of Yuriev (1253). St. Sabbas of Ioannina (15th c.). St. Ignatius of Mariupol in Crimea, metropolitan of Gothia and Kafa (1786). Greek New Martyrs Stamatius and John, brothers, and Nicholas their companion, in Chios (1822).