23 Февраля 2004 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, February 23, 2004 (February 10, 2004 by the Julian calendar)
The 1-st week of the Great Lent, Bright Monday, Tone three

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). Hieromartyr Charalampus, bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly, and Martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus (202). Synaxis of Novgorod Hierarchs: Sts. Joachim (1030), Luke the Jew (1058), Germanus (1095), Arcadius (1162), Gregory (1193), Martyrius (1199), Anthony (1232), Basil (1352), Moses (1362), Symeon (1421), Gennadius (1504), Pimen (1571), and Athonius (1648). St. Anna of Novgorod, wife of Yaroslav I (1050). St. Prochorus of the Kiev Caves (1107). St. Longinus, monk, of Koryazhemka (Vologda) (1540). Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina, and Paula of Palestine (308). Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Areovindus ("Fiery Vision"). St. Anastasius II, archbishop of Jerusalem [706] (Greek) . New Martyr Anatole (Greesiuk), metropolitan of Odessa (1938). St. Scholastica of Italy, sister of St. Benedict (543). St. John Chimchimeli of Bachkovo and Gremi (13th c.).