Orthodox Calendar for март 2026

март 2026
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1 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed First Sunday of Lent Sunday of Orthodoxy Martyr Eudocia of Heliopolis (2nd c.)	2 Lenten Fast Hieromartyr Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia (326) The Four Hundred and Forty Martyrs of Lombardy (579) Holy Martyr Euthalia (257)	3 Lenten Fast Holy Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus (308) An Unknown Girl in Alexandria (?)	4 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy St Gerasimos of the Jordan (475) St James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th c.)	5 Lenten Fast Martyr Conon of Isauria (2nd c.) St Mark of Athens (4th c.) St Mark the Ascetic (5th c.)	6 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy The 42 Martyrs of Ammorion (845)	7 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basileus, Ephraim, Eugenios, Capito, Aetherios, Agathodoros, and Elpidios (4th c.)
8 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Second Sunday of Lent St Gregory Palamas St Theophylactus, bishop of Nicomedia (845) Hieromartyr Theodoretus (362)	9 Lenten Fast Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastia (Sebaste) (320) St Caesarius (369)	10 Lenten Fast Martyrs Codratus (Quadratus) and those with him (258) Our Holy Mother Anastasia (563)	11 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy St Sophronios, patriarch of Jerusalem (638) St John Moschos, author of the Spiritual Meadow (622) Holy Martyr Pionius (250)	12 Lenten Fast St Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), Pope of Rome (604) Our Holy Father Theophanes the Confessor (818) Repose of St Symeon the New Theologian (1021)	13 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Translation of the Relics (847) of St Nicephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople (827)	14 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday St Benedict of Nursia, abbot (547) St Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)
15 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Third Sunday of Lent Veneration of the Precious Cross Martyr Agapius and seven with him (303) Holy Martyr Alexander (270-275)	16 Lenten Fast Martyr Sabinas of Hermopolis, Egypt (287) Our Holy Father Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos (1111) Holy Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, first Bishop of Britain (1st c.)	17 Lenten Fast St Alexis, the Man of God (411) St Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland (ca. 461)	18 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy St Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem (386) St Ananias (Aninus) the Wonderworker (?) Saint Nikolai (Velimirovic), Bishop of Ochrid and Zica, Serbia (1956)(March 5 OC)	19 Lenten Fast Martyrs Chrysanthos and Daria, and those with them at Rome (283)	20 Lenten Fast Presanctified Liturgy Our righteous Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St Sabbas the Sanctified (633? 796?) St Photine the Samaritan Woman (66) St Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Bishop of Lindisfarne (687)	21 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Memorial Saturday Our Holy Father James the Confessor, bishop, of the Studion (8th c.) Our Holy Father Serapion (366)
22 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Fourth Sunday of Lent St John Climacus Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra (362) Martyr Drosida of Antioch, and five nuns (104)	23 Lenten Fast Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251)	24 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Forefeast of Annunciation Saint Zacharias the Recluse of Egypt (4th c.) Commemoration of the Miracle at the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev (?)	25 Lenten Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Presanctified Liturgy Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos The Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary New Confessor/Hieromartyr Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow (1925)	26 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete Presanctified Liturgy Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel	27 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Presanctified Liturgy St Matrona of Thessalonica (4th c.)	28 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-Holy Theotokos St Hilarion the New, abbot of Pelecete, Confessor (754) Repose of Gerontissa Gavrilia (1992) (March 15 OC)
29 Lenten Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Fifth Sunday of Lent St Mary of Egypt Our Righteous Father Mark the Confessor, Bishop of Arethusa; Cyril the Deacon, and others martyred during the reign of Julian Our Holy Father John the Hermit (4th c.)	30 Lenten Fast St John Klimakos (John of the Ladder) of Sinai (649) Commemoration of an Uncondemning Monk	31 Lenten Fast Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas St Innocent, enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879) Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra (326) St Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow (1461)