Meatfare Wednesday
In Russian: Среда мясопустная
In Church Slavonic: Сре́да мѧсопꙋ́стнаѧ
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (29 January on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
2027
Old calendar
- (18 February on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
Also commemorated on 11 February 2026
- Translation of the relics of the Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch († 107)
- Сщмчч. Иоанна и Леонтия пресвитеров, Константина диакона и с ними 5 мучеников (1920)
- Martyrs Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian and Paregorius, at Samosata († 297)
- Martyrs Silvanus the Bishop, Luke the Deacon and Mocius the Reader († 312)
- Venerable Laurence of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Turov († 1194)
- Holy Hierarchs of Perm: Gerasimus († c. 1441), Pitirim († 1455), and Jonah († 1470)