7 Марта 1857 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, March 7, 1857 (February 23, 1857 by the Julian calendar)
1^st Week of the Great Lent, Tone four

Great Lent. Great Martyr Theodore Tyro (306) (movable holiday on Saturday of the 1st week of the Great Lent). Hieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167). New Hieromartyrs Alexis, Nicolos priests amd Martyr Sergius (1938). St. Polycarp, monk, of Briansk (1620-21). Sts. John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses, and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian desert (5th c.). St. Alexander, founder of the order of the Unsleeping Ones (430). St. Moses, monk, of White Lake (1480). St. Gorgonia, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian (372) (Greek). St. Damian of Esphigmenou, Mt. Athos (1280) (Greek). New Monk-martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568) (Greek). St. John the Harvester of Stylos in Calabria (11th c.). St. Cosmas of Zographou, Mt. Athos (1281). New Hieromartyr Lazarus of the Peloponnese (1618).