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Venerable
Venerable Agathon of Egypt (5th C)
In Russian: Прп. Агафона Египетского (V)
In Church Slavonic: Прпⷣбнагѡ а҆гаѳѡ́на є҆гѵ́петскагѡ (е҃)
Born: 350
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (2 March on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
2027
Old calendar
- (2 March on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
Also commemorated on 15 March 2026
- Third Sunday of Lent, Veneration of the Precious Cross
- ✚Icon of the Mother of God ‘She who Reigns’ (1917)
- Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia († c. 326)
- St. Arsenius the Bishop of Tver († 1409)
- Martyr Euthalia of Sicily († 257)
- Martyr Troadius of Neocæsarea (3rd C)
- 440 Martyrs slain by the Lombards in Sicily († 579)