17 Марта 1840 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Tuesday, March 17, 1840 (March 5, 1840 by the Julian calendar)
2^nd Week of the Great Lent, Tone one

Great Lent. Martyr Conon of Isauria (2nd c.). Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, prince of Smolensk and Yaroslav (1299), and his children Sts. David (1321) and Constantine. New Hieromartyr John priest and New Hieromartyrs Mardarius and Theopane (1938). Monk-martyr Adrian, abbot of Poshekhonye (1550) and his fellow-ascetic St. Leonidas (1549). Martyr Onisius of Isauria (2nd c.). Martyr Conon the Gardener of Pamphylia (251). Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoe in Egypt (3rd c.) and with her Martyr Archelaus and 152 Martyrs in Egypt. Martyr Eulogius of Palestine. Martyr Eulampius of Palestine. St. Mark the Faster of Egypt (5th c.). St. Hesychius the Faster of Bithynia (790). "Nurtured Up-Bringing" Icon of the Mother of God. New Martyr John the Bulgarian (Mt. Athos), at Constantinople (1784) (Greek). St. Nicholas (Velimirovich), bishop of Ochrid and Zhicha, Serbia (1956) (Serbia). Martyr Archelaus and 152 Martyrs in Egypt. St. Kieran (Ciaran) of Saigher, Munster (Ireland) (5th-6th c.) (Celtic & British). St. Theophilus, bishop of Caesaria in Palestine (200). St. Virgil, archbishop of Aries (618). Sts. Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl. New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805). New Martyr George of Rapsana (1818).