Thursday, 19 February 2026
6 February 2026 on the Old calendar
- Cheesefare Thursday
Liturgical colour: red
Saints of the day
- Apostles of the Seventy: Archippus and Philemon, and martyred Equal-to-the-Apostles Apphia (1st C)
- St. Theodore of Sanaxar († 1791)
- New Martyr Demetrius (1942)
- Venerable Dositheus of Palestine, a Disciple of Venerable Abba Dorotheus (7th C)
- Venerable Rabulas of Samosata († c. 530)
- Holy Confessors Eugene and Macarius, Presbyters at Antioch († 363)
- Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius and Asclepiodota of Adrianopolis († 305-311)
- Venerable Conon of Palestine († 555)
- Venerable Philothea of Athens († 1589)
Fasting
No meatFish, dairy and eggs are fine; no meat.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.