29 Февраля 1808 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Monday, February 29, 1808 (February 17, 1808 by the Julian calendar)
The 1-st week of the Great Lent, Bright Monday, Tone four

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). [.:] Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro (306). St. Hermogenes, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1612). St. Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). St. Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip (1st c.). Uncovering of the relics (867-869) of Martyr Menas the Melodius of Alexandria (ca. 313). St. Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne (661) (Celtic & British). St. Auxibius, bishop of Soli in Cyprus (102) (Greek). New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mitylene (1795) (Greek). Emperor Marcian (457) and Pulcheria, his wife (453), and the commemoration of the dedication of the Great Church in Constantinople (Greek). St. Theodosius the Bulgarian and his disciple St. Romanus, monks, of Turnovo (1362) (Bulgaria). New Martyr Michael Mavroeidis of Adrianople (1490). New Martyr Theodore, hieromonk of Adjara, who suflfered under the Turks on Mt. Athos (19th c.). St. Barnabas, elder of the Gethsemane Skete of St. Sergius Lavra (1906). St. Nicholas (Planas), priest in Athens (1932).