2 Марта 1890 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 2, 1890 (February 18, 1890 by the Julian calendar)
1-st Sunday of the Great Lent, Triumph of Orthodoxy, Tone five

Great Lent. “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Staromniy, Moscow region (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent). St. Leo the Great, pope of Rome (461). St. Agapitus, bishop of Synnada in Phrygia (4th c.). St. Flavian the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (449). St. Cosmas, monk, of Yakhromsk (1492). Martyrs Victor, Dorotheus, Theodulus, and Agrippa, who suffered under Licinius (4th c.). St. Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne (676) (Celtic & British). Martyrs Leo and Parigorius of Patara of Lycia (258) (Greek). New Hieromartyrs Alexander (Medvedsky) (1932) priest and Benjamin hieromonk (1938). St. Blaise, monk of Mt. Athos (9th c.). Finding of relics (1961) of New Martyr Irene of Lesbos (1463). St. Nicholas, catholicos of Georgia (1591). Commemoration of the New Martyrs who suffered during the "Holy Night" in St. Petersburg (1932).