Hierarch
Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica († c. 1360)
In Russian: Свт. Григория Паламы, архиеп. Фессалонитского (ок. 1360)
In Church Slavonic: Ст҃и́телѧ григо́рїа пала́мы, а҆рхїепⷭ҇копа Фессалонитского (ок. 1360)
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (23 February on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
2027
Old calendar
- (15 March on the Old calendar), movable date
New calendar
- , movable date
Also commemorated on 8 March 2026
- Second Sunday of Lent
- 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
- Forerunner