27 Февраля 2017 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, February 27, 2017 (February 14, 2017 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. Auxentius, monk of Bithynia (470). + St. Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles, teacher of the Slavs (869). New Hieromartyr Onisimus bishop of Tula (1937). St. Isaac, recluse of the Kiev Caves (1090). 12 Greek Master-Builders of the Dormition Cathedral in the Lavra of the Kievan Caves (11th C). Translation of the relics of Prince-martyr Michael and his counselor, St. Theodore of Chernigov (1578). St. Maron, hermit of Syria (423). St. Abraham, bishop of Charres in Mesopotamia (ca. 423). Hieromartyr Philemon, bishop of Gaza. New Martyr George the Tailor of Mitylene, at Constantinople (1693) (Greek). New Martyr Nicholas of Corinth (1554) (Greek). St. Peter, patriarch of Alexandria (380). New Monk-martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568). St. Hilarion the Georgian of Imeretia and Mt. Athos (1854). St. Raphael, bishop of Brooklyn (1915).