RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

February

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  Holy Hierarch Mark Eugenikos, Archbishop of Ephesus

  19 January / 1 February

  St. Mark was born ca. 1391-1392 in Constantinople. His parents belonged to a prominent family of considerable means. His father was a deacon...
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  St. Macarius of Alexandria

  19 January / 1 February

  The Saint was born in the year 295 in Alexandria. He was a merchant until the age of 40, when he received Holy Baptism and went off into the...

• St. Maximus the Confessor

  21 January/3 February

  A mighty spiritual giant, who was broken by nothing and by no one, whose image does not fade with the ages, Venerable Maximus the Confessor is...

• St. Paulinus the Merciful, bishop of Nola (+431)

  23 January/5 February

  By his 20s, this man, a son of a senator, a wealthy, gifted person with an outstanding education was already elected a senator, and then consul...
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  St. Xenia of Petersburg

  24 January/6 February

  Св. Ксения была женой полковника Андрея Федоровича Петрова, служившего придворным певчим. Двадцати шести лет Ксения овдовела и, казалось,...

• New Hieromartyr Vladimir, metropolitan of Kiev

  25 January/7 February

  I fear no one and nothing.
  I am ready to give up my life at any time for the
  Church of Christ rather than to give Her enemies...
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  Hiero-confessor Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky)

  January 29/February 11...
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  Righteous St. Alexis of Moscow (Metchev)

  29 January /11 February (Synaxis of the New Martyrs),
  9/22 June, 20 August/2 September (Saints of Moscow)
  16/29 September (Translation of the Relics)
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  Equal-to-the-Apostles St. Nicholas of Japan

  3/16 February

  On August 1, 1836, in the village of Beryoza, Smolensk District, a son was born into the family of a poor deacon named Dimitry Kasatkin. The child was...
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  St. Theodosius, archbishop of Chernigov

  5/18 February

  The future holy hierarch was born at the beginning of the 1630s, in the province of Podolsk. He was of the lineage of the ancient aristocratic...

• St. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople

  6/19 February

  St.Photius lived in the 9th Century. He was the child of zealous Christians; his father endured a martyr’s death in defense of icons. St. Photius...

• Parthenius, bishop of Lampsacus on the Hellespont

  7/20 February

  Hierarch Parthenius, bishop of Lampsacus, was a native of the town of Melitopolis (Asia Minor), where his father, Christopher, served as a deacon. The...

• St. Mary (who was called Marinus), and her father, St. Eugene, monk

  12/25 February

  They lived at the beginning of the sixth century in Bithynia (the north-west region of Asia Minor). Having become a widower, Venerable Eugene decided...

• Archbishop Seraphim of Bulgaria

  13/26 February

  The glorification of Vladyka Seraphim (Sobolev), which took place in the Cathedral Church of the Dormition of the Most-holy Theotokos in Sofia,...