First Sunday of Lent: Triumph of Orthodoxy
In Russian: Неделя первая Великого поста: Торжество православия
In Church Slavonic: Недѣ́лѧ пе́рваѧ ст҃ы́хъ постѡ́въ
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (16 February on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
2027
Old calendar
- (8 March on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
Also commemorated on 1 March 2026
- Martyrs Pamphilus the Presbyter, Valens the Deacon, Paul, Porphyrius, Seleucus, Theodoulus, Julian, Samuel, Elias, Daniel, Jeremiah and Isaiah at Cæsarea in Palestine († c307-309)
- Holy Hierarch Macarius (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna († 1926)
- New Hieromartyr Priest Paul (1938)
- Persian martyrs whose relics were translated to Martyropolis by St. Maruthas (4th C)
- Venerable Maruthas, Bishop of Martyropolis in Mesopotamia († 422)