Prophet
Forerunner
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (23 February on the Old calendar), repose, not every year
New calendar
- , repose, not every year
- , repose, not every year
2027
Old calendar
- (23 February on the Old calendar), repose, not every year
New calendar
- , repose, not every year
- , repose, not every year
Also commemorated on 8 March 2026
- Second Sunday of Lent
- Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica († c. 1360)
- Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna († 167)
- New Hieromartyrs Priests Alexis, Nicholas, Michael and Martyr Sergius († 1938)
- Venerable Alexander the founder of the Monastery of the “Unsleeping Ones” († c. 430)
- Venerable John, Antiochus, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, another Moses, and Damian, Ascetics of the Syrian Deserts (5th C)
- Venerable Polycarp of Briansk († 1620-1621)
- Кипрской иконы Божией Матери в с. Стромыни Московской области