Orthodox Calendar for March 2038

March 2038
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1 Fast—Meat Fast Martyr Pamphylius and His Companions	2 Fast—Meat Fast Greatmartyr Theodore Tyro Hieromartyr Germogen, Patriarch of Moscow	3 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy St Leo the Great, Pope of Rome	4 Fast—Meat Fast Apostles of the Seventy Archippus and Philemon Our Venerable Mother Philothea of Athens (1589)	5 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy St Leo, Bishop of Catania St Bessarion the Great, wonder-worker of Egypt (466) Thirty-four Holy Martyrs of the Monastery of Valaam (1578)	6 Fast—Meat Fast Commemoration of Departed Righteous Monastics Ven. Timothy of Symbola St Eustathius, archbishop of Antioch (337) St John the Scholastic, patriarch of Constantinople (577) Saint Zachariah, Patriarch of Jerusalem (632)
7 Fast—Meat Fast Sunday of Cheesefare: Expulsion of Adam from Paradise Forgiveness Sunday Unc. Rel. Holy Martyrs at Gate of Eugenius	8 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Beginning of the Great Fast Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna Saint Gorgonia (372) Our Venerable Father Alexander the Unsleeping (430)	9 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon 1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist Saint Aethelberht (Ethelbert), first Christian King of Kent (616)	10 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon; Presanctified Liturgy St Tarasius, Abp. of Constantinople	11 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon St Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza St Photini the Samaritan Woman, and those with her (66)	12 Lenten Fast—No overrides Presanctified 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)	13 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Theodore Tyro (the Recruit) Ven. Basil the Confessor Blessed Nicholas of Pskov, fool for Christ (1576)
14 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed First Sunday of Lent Sunday of Orthodoxy Martyr Eudoxia of Heliopolis	15 Lenten Fast 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 Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus An Unknown Girl in Alexandria (?)	17 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Ven. Gerasimus of the Jordan Rt. Blv. Prince Daniel of Moscow St James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th c.)	18 Lenten Fast Martyr Conon of Isauria St Mark of Athens (4th c.) St Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)	19 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Forty-two Martyrs of Ammoria	20 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday Seven Hieromartyrs of Cherson
21 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Second Sunday of Lent St Gregory Palamas St Theophylactus, Bishop of Nicomedia Hieromartyr Theodoretus (362)	22 Lenten Fast Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste St Caesarius (369)	23 Lenten Fast Martyr Quadratus and Companions Our Holy Mother Anastasia (563)	24 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy 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 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 Presanctified Liturgy Trans. Rel. Nicephorus, Patr. Constantinopole	27 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday Ven. Benedict of Nursia St Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)
28 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Third Sunday of Lent Veneration of the Precious Cross 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 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 Presanctified Liturgy 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)