Meatfare Thursday
In Russian: Четверг мясопустный
In Church Slavonic: Четверто́къ мѧсопꙋ́стнаѧ
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (30 January on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
2027
Old calendar
- (19 February on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
Also commemorated on 12 February 2026
- ✚Synaxis of the “Three Hierarchs”: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom
- Hieromartyr Hippolytus, Pope of Rome, along with the Martyrs Censorinus and Sabinus, the Virgin Martyr Chryse and 20 other Martyrs at Ostia (3rd C)
- Блж. Пелагии Дивеевской (1884)
- Сщмч. Василия пресвитера (1933)
- Мч. Стефана (1945)
- Venerable Zeno the Hermit of Antioch, a disciple of Saint Basil the Great (5th C)
- Martyr Theophilus the New in Cyprus († 784)
- Right-believing Peter, King of Bulgaria († 967)
- Venerable Zeno, the Faster of the Kiev Caves (14th C)