Clean Wednesday
In Russian: Чистая среда
In Church Slavonic: Сре́да а҃-ѧ седми́цы ст҃а́гѡ поста̀
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (12 February on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
2027
Old calendar
- (4 March on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
Also commemorated on 25 February 2026
- ✚Iveron Icon of the Mother of God (9th C)
- ✚Saint Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia († 1378)
- Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch († 381)
- Holy Hierarch Meletius, Archbishop of Kharkov († 1840)
- Venerable Mary (known as the Monk Marinus), and her father, the Venerable Eugene at Alexandria (6th C)
- Saint Anthony, Patriarch of Constantinople († 895)
- День тезоименитства Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Алексия II. (+2008)