Orthodox Calendar for March 2040

March 2040
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1 Greatmartyr Theodore Tyro Hieromartyr Germogen, Patriarch of Moscow	2 St Leo the Great, Pope of Rome	3 Apostles of the Seventy Archippus and Philemon Our Venerable Mother Philothea of Athens (1589)
4 Sunday of the Prodigal Son 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 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 Unc. Rel. Holy Martyrs at Gate of Eugenius Ven. Thalassius and Baradates, Hermits of Syria	7 Fast Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna Saint Gorgonia (372) Our Venerable Father Alexander the Unsleeping (430)	8 1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist Saint Aethelberht (Ethelbert), first Christian King of Kent (616)	9 Fast St Tarasius, Abp. of Constantinople	10 Memorial Saturday St Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza St Photini the Samaritan Woman, and those with her (66)
11 Sunday of Meatfare Sunday of the Last Judgment 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 Ven. Basil the Confessor Blessed Nicholas of Pskov, fool for Christ (1576)	13 Fast—Meat Fast Ven. John Cassian	14 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy Martyr Eudoxia of Heliopolis	15 Fast—Meat 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 Fast—Meat Fast No Liturgy Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus An Unknown Girl in Alexandria (?)	17 Fast—Meat Fast Commemoration of Departed Righteous Monastics Ven. Gerasimus of the Jordan Rt. Blv. Prince Daniel of Moscow St James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th c.)
18 Fast—Meat Fast Sunday of Cheesefare: Expulsion of Adam from Paradise Forgiveness Sunday Martyr Conon of Isauria St Mark of Athens (4th c.) St Mark the Ascetic (5th c.) Saint Nikolai (Velimirovic), Bishop of Ochrid and Zica, Serbia (1956)(March 5 OC)	19 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Beginning of the Great Fast Forty-two Martyrs of Ammoria	20 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Seven Hieromartyrs of Cherson	21 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon; Presanctified Liturgy St Theophylactus, Bishop of Nicomedia Hieromartyr Theodoretus (362)	22 Lenten Fast—No overrides Great Canon Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste St Caesarius (369)	23 Lenten Fast—No overrides Presanctified Liturgy Martyr Quadratus and Companions Our Holy Mother Anastasia (563)	24 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed St Theodore Tyro (the Recruit) St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem St Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod St John Moschos, author of the Spiritual Meadow (622) Holy Martyr Pionius (250)
25 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed First Sunday of Lent Sunday of Orthodoxy 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 Trans. Rel. Nicephorus, Patr. Constantinopole	27 Lenten Fast Ven. Benedict of Nursia St Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)	28 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Martyr Agapius and Seven with Him Holy Martyr Alexander (270-275) Repose of Gerontissa Gavrilia (1992) (March 15 OC)	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 Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (ca. 461)	31 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday St Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem Rep. St Nikolaj of Zhicha St Ananias (Aninus) the Wonderworker (?)