4 Марта 1849 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 4, 1849 (February 20, 1849 by the Julian calendar)
1-st Sunday of the Great Lent, Triumph of Orthodoxy, Tone five

Great Lent. “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Staromniy, Moscow region (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent). St. Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily (ca. 780). Abbot Macarius and 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery martyred by the Lutherans: hieromonk Titus, schemamonk Tikhon, monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Silvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Simonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, and Serapion, and novices Varlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John (1578). St. Agatho, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (13th-l4th c.). Beheading of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov Caves (1570), and his disciple St. Bassian of Murom. Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (342). St. Agatho, pope of Rome (682). St. Bessarion the Great, wonderworker of Egypt (466) (Greek). St. Cindeus, bishop of Pisidia (Greek). Hieromartyr Eleutherius, bishop in Byzantium (2nd c.). St. Eleutherius, bishop of Tournai (531). St. Eucherius, bishop of Orleans (740).