Monday, 23 February 2026
10 February 2026 on the Old calendar
- Clean Monday: Beginning of Great Lent
Liturgical colour: purple
48 days until Pascha
Saints of the day
- Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna († 167)
- New Hieromartyrs Priests Alexis, Nicholas, Michael and Martyr Sergius († 1938)
- Venerable John, Antiochus, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, another Moses, and Damian, Ascetics of the Syrian Deserts (5th C)
- Venerable Alexander the founder of the Monastery of the “Unsleeping Ones” († c. 430)
- Venerable Gorgonia, sister of St Gregory the Theologian
- Venerable Polycarp of Briansk († 1620-1621)
- Venerable Moses of White Lake
- Venerable Damian of Esphigmenou on Mt Athos
- New Venerable Martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568)
Fasting
Full abstinenceBy the rule, no food is taken on this day.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.