8 Марта 1997 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, March 8, 1997 (February 23, 1997 by the Julian calendar)
Week of the Last Judgment, Tone six

Entire week. All of the venerable fathers, lit up with great deeds (movable holiday on Saturday of the Cheese-fare Week). 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).