Wednesday, 4 March 2026

19 February 2026 on the Old calendar

Liturgical colour: purple

39 days until Pascha

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)
Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius and Asclepiodota of Adrianopolis († 305-311)
Holy Confessors Eugene and Macarius, Presbyters at Antioch († 363)
Venerable Rabulas of Samosata († c. 530)
Venerable Dositheus of Palestine, a Disciple of Venerable Abba Dorotheus (7th C)

Strict fast

Plant food without oil.

Fasting is personal; ask your priest.