3 Марта 1851 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, March 3, 1851 (February 19, 1851 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). Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy, and Martyr Apphia (1st c.). Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius, and Asclepiodotus of Adrianopolis (305-311). Sts. Eugene and Macarius, presbyters, confessors at Antioch (363). St. Dositheus of Palestine (6th c.), disciple of St. Abba Dorotheus. St. Rabulas of Samosata (530). St. Conon, abbot in Palestine (555). New Hieromartyr Nicetas of Epirus (1809). St. Philothea, nun-martyr, of Athens (1589) (Greek). St. Mesrop the Translator of Armenia (439). St. Theodore of Sanaxar Monastery (1791).