20 Марта 2016 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 20, 2016 (March 7, 2016 by the Julian calendar)
1-st Sunday of the Great Lent, Triumph of Orthodoxy, Tone one

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). The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathodorus (4th c.). New Hieromartyr Nicolos priest (1930). New Hieromartyr Nilus, Virgin-martyrs Matrona, Mary, Eudocia, Ecaterina, Antonina, Nadezhda (1938). St. Paul the Simple of Egypt, disciple of St. Anthony the Great (4th c.). St. Paul the Confessor, bishop of Prusias in Bithynia (850). St. Emilian of Rome. Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety of Sinners" in Korets (1622), Odrin (1843) and Moscow (1848). Sts. Nestor and Arcadius, bishops of Tremithus (Greek). St. Laurence, founder of the monastery of the Mother of God on Salamis (1707) (Greek). St. Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (546). St. Dandus and all Saints of Thrace.