26 Февраля 2001 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, February 26, 2001 (February 13, 2001 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). St. Martinian, monk, of Caesarea in Palestine (422). New Hieromartyr Silvester (Olshevsky) bishop of Omsk and Pavlodar. New Hieromartyrs Zosimas, Nicolos, Basil, John, Leontius, Vladimir, Parthenius, John, John, Michael priests and Martyr Paul; Virgin-martyrs Anna, Vera and Irina (1938). The holy woman Zoe of Bethlehem and Virgin Photina (5th c.). St. Eulogius, archbishop of Alexandria (607-608). St. Symeon the Myrrh-gusher, prince of Serbia (1200). St. Modomnoc, bishop of Ossory (6th c.) (Celtic & British). Apostle and Martyr Aquila, and Priscilla (Greek). St. Timothy, patriarch of Alexandria (385). St. Joseph of Volokolamsk (1515).