19 Февраля 2018 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, February 19, 2018 (February 6, 2018 by the Julian calendar)
The 1-st week of the Great Lent, Bright Monday, Tone four

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. Bucolus, bishop of Smyrna (ca. 100). New Hieromartyrs Demetrius priest and Martyr Anatolius (1921). New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1930). Sts. Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet, monks of Palestine (6th c.). St. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople (891). Virgin-martyr Dorothea, and with her Martyrs Christina and Callista, sisters, and Theophilus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (288-300). Martyr Julian of Emesa (312). Virgin-martyr Fausta, and with her Martyrs Evilasius and Maximus, at Cyzicus (ca. 305-311). Virgin-martyrs Martha and Mary, and their brother Martyr Lycarion, in Egypt. St. Dorothea, schemanun of Kashin (1629). St. Mael, bishop of Ardagh, disciple of St. Patrick (488) (Celtic & British). Martyrs Faustus, Basil and Silvanus of Darion in Constantinople (Greek). St. John of Thebes, monk (Greek). St. James, ascetic of Syria (ca. 460). St. Vedast, bishop of Arras (540). St. Amand, apostle of Maastricht (675) (Neth.). St. Arsen of Iqalto, Georgia (1127). New Hieromartyr Priest Basil Nadezhnin of Moscow, (1937).