Sunday, February 16/March 1, 2026. First Sunday of Great Lent. Great Lent.
Hieromartyrs Pamphilus, priest and Valens, deacon, and Martyrs Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel, at Caesarea in Palestine (307-309). St. Macarius (Nevsky), metropolitan of Moscow, apostle to the Altai (1926). Synaxis of the Saints of Novosibirsk.
St. Maruthas, bishop of Sophene and Martyropolis, and the Martyrs of Persia, whose relics rest in Martyropolis (4th c.). St. Basil Gryaznov of Pavlovo-Posadsky (1869).
“Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Stromyn (Moscow).
St. Mary the New, of Byzia in Thrace (9th c.). New Monkmartyr Romanus of Carpenision and Kapsokalyvia, at Constantinople (1694). St. Flavian the Confessor, archbishop of Constantinople (ca. 449).