2 Марта 1898 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, March 2, 1898 (February 18, 1898 by the Julian calendar)
1^st Week of the Great Lent, Tone four

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).