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March 6
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March 19
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2nd Week of Great Lent. Second Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead.
Tone 5.
Great Lent. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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The 42 Martyrs of Ammorium in Phrygia, including Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others (ca. 845). St. Job ( Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island (Solovki) (1720).
Monk-martyrs Conon and his son Conon, of Iconium (270-275). The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress St. Helen (326). St. Arcadius, monk, of Cyprus (4th c.) and his disciples Julian and Bulius. St. Fridolin, abbot, enlightener of the Upper Rhine (5th c.-6th c.).
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos: “Chenstokhov” (Poland) and “Blessed Heaven” (Moscow) (14th c.).
Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (ca. 304)
Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989).
Articles
 Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helen in JerusalemThe Holy Empress Helen uncovered the Precious Cross and Nails of the Lord at Jerusalem in 326. |
 Venerable Arcadius of CyprusSaint Arcadius from his youth devoted himself to monastic efforts. |
 Icon of the Mother of God “the Blessed Heaven”The “Blessed Heaven” Icon of the Mother of God is on the iconostasis of the Moscow Archangel cathedral in the Kremlin. |