Orthodox Calendar for March 2016

March 2016
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1 Greatmartyr Theodore Tyro Hieromartyr Germogen, Patriarch of Moscow	2 Fast St Leo the Great, Pope of Rome	3 Apostles of the Seventy Archippus and Philemon Our Venerable Mother Philothea of Athens (1589)	4 Fast St Leo, Bishop of Catania St Bessarion the Great, wonder-worker of Egypt (466) Thirty-four Holy Martyrs of the Monastery of Valaam (1578)	5 Memorial Saturday Ven. Timothy of Symbola St Eustathius, archbishop of Antioch (337) St John the Scholastic, patriarch of Constantinople (577) Saint Zachariah, Patriarch of Jerusalem (632)
6 Sunday of Meatfare Sunday of the Last Judgment Unc. Rel. Holy Martyrs at Gate of Eugenius	7 Fast—Meat Fast Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna Saint Gorgonia (372) Our Venerable Father Alexander the Unsleeping (430)	8 Fast—Meat Fast 1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist Saint Aethelberht (Ethelbert), first Christian King of Kent (616)	9 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy St Tarasius, Abp. of Constantinople	10 Fast—Meat Fast St Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza St Photini the Samaritan Woman, and those with her (66)	11 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy St Raphael Bishop of Brooklyn Our Holy Father Procopius of Decapolis (9th c.) Our Venerable Father Titus of the Lavra of the Kiev Caves (1190) Our Holy Father Leander, Bishop of Seville and Apostle of Spain (600)	12 Fast—Meat Fast Commemoration of Departed Righteous Monastics Ven. Basil the Confessor Blessed Nicholas of Pskov, fool for Christ (1576)
13 Fast—Meat Fast Sunday of Cheesefare: Expulsion of Adam from Paradise Forgiveness Sunday Ven. John Cassian	14 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Beginning of the Great Fast Martyr Eudoxia of Heliopolis	15 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia St Arseny, Bishop of Tver The Four Hundred and Forty Martyrs of Lombardy (579) Holy Martyr Euthalia (257)	16 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon; Presanctified Liturgy Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus An Unknown Girl in Alexandria (?)	17 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Ven. Gerasimus of the Jordan Rt. Blv. Prince Daniel of Moscow St James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th c.)	18 Lenten Fast—No overrides Presanctified Liturgy Martyr Conon of Isauria St Mark of Athens (4th c.) St Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)	19 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Theodore Tyro (the Recruit) Forty-two Martyrs of Ammoria
20 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed First Sunday of Lent Sunday of Orthodoxy Seven Hieromartyrs of Cherson	21 Lenten Fast St Theophylactus, Bishop of Nicomedia Hieromartyr Theodoretus (362)	22 Lenten Fast Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste St Caesarius (369)	23 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Martyr Quadratus and Companions Our Holy Mother Anastasia (563)	24 Lenten Fast St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem St Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod St Sophronios, patriarch of Jerusalem (638) St John Moschos, author of the Spiritual Meadow (622) Holy Martyr Pionius (250)	25 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Ven. Theophanes the Confessor St Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), Pope of Rome (604) Repose of St Symeon the New Theologian (1021)	26 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday Trans. Rel. Nicephorus, Patr. Constantinopole
27 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Second Sunday of Lent St Gregory Palamas Ven. Benedict of Nursia St Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)	28 Lenten Fast Martyr Agapius and Seven with Him Holy Martyr Alexander (270-275)	29 Lenten Fast Martyr Sabinas of Egypt Our Holy Father Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos (1111) Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Britain (1st c.)	30 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Ven. Alexius the Man of God Ven. Makary of Kalyazinsk St Alexis, the Man of God (411) St Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (ca. 461)	31 Lenten Fast St Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem Rep. St Nikolaj of Zhicha St Ananias (Aninus) the Wonderworker (?) Saint Nikolai (Velimirovic), Bishop of Ochrid and Zica, Serbia (1956)(March 5 OC)