RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

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• Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro

  17 February/2 March

  In the city of Amasea, in the province of Pontus, during the Emperor Maximian's (286­305) persecution, the soldier Theodore, together with other...

• St. Agapitus the Confessor, bishop of Synnada in Phrygia

  18 February/2 March

  The Holy Hierarch was born in Cappadocia during the reign of Emperors Diocletian and Maximian (284 - 305). His parents were Christians. From...

• St.Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily

  20 February/5 March

  St. Leo was bishop of Catania, Sicily. He was renowned for his kindness and charity, his Christian love for strangers and the poor. The Lord...

• Venerable St. Alexander the Monk, Founder of the "Non-sleeping Ones" Monastery

  23 February / 8 March

  Venerable Alexander, founder of the "Non-sleeping Ones" Monastery, was born in Asia and was educated in Constantinople. For a time, he was in...

• New Martyr John Calphas ("the Apprentice")

  26 February/11 March

  St. John Kalphes, was from Galata, and was an apprentice to a cabinetmaker in the royal palace. Other members of the nobility would invite him...
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  Blessed Nikolas of Pskov, fool-for-Christ

  28 February/13 March

  For over three decades, Blessed Nikolas of Pskov waged the spiritual struggle of being a fool-for-Christ. Well before his death, he acquired...

• St. Martyrius, abbot of Zelenets (Tikhvin)

  1/14 March

  St. Martyrius was from Velikiy Luk. At the age of 10 he was orphaned, and was raised by the priest Bogolep. After entering monastic life, he struggled for...

• Martyr Wenceslaus

  4/17 March

  The right-believing Vyacheslav (also Wenceslaus or Vaclav), Prince of the Czechs, was the grandson of the Holy Princess Ludmilla, who instructed him in...

• Holy Hierarch Nikolai of Serbia

  5/18 March and 20 April/3 May

  At its meeting on May 19, the Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church unanimously decided to officially canonize Bishop...

• St. Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk (Solovki)

  6/19 March

  Venerable St. Job (in the world, John) of Anzera, was born in Moscow in 1635. He began pastoral service as a priest in one of the parish churches. He...

• St. Theophanes the Confessor of Sygriane

  12/25 March

  The saint was born in Constantinople, into a pious and prominent family. Theophanes’ father was related to the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian (...

• St.Benedict of Nursia, abbot

  14/27 March

  The founder of the Western Benedictine monastic order was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. At 14, the saint was dispatched by his...

• St. Alexis the Man of God, in Rome

  17/30 March

  In the fourth century, in Rome lived the wealthy spouses, Euthymianus and Aglaia, who were known for their kindheartedness and compassion. Daily they...
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  Holy Martyr King Edward of England

  18/31 March

  Edward was the oldest son of English King Edgar, who reigned from the year 957. Edgar, like his famous great-grandfather King Alfred the Great, was...