Venerable
Venerable Damian of Esphigmenou on Mt Athos
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
Not kept on this calendar this year.
New calendar
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2027
Old calendar
Not kept on this calendar this year.
New calendar
- , repose
Also commemorated on 23 February 2026
- Clean Monday: Beginning of Great Lent
- Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna († 167)
- New Hieromartyrs Priests Alexis, Nicholas, Michael and Martyr Sergius († 1938)
- Venerable John, Antiochus, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, another Moses, and Damian, Ascetics of the Syrian Deserts (5th C)
- Venerable Alexander the founder of the Monastery of the “Unsleeping Ones” († c. 430)
- Venerable Gorgonia, sister of St Gregory the Theologian
- Venerable Polycarp of Briansk († 1620-1621)
- Venerable Moses of White Lake
- New Venerable Martyr Damian the New of Philotheou, who suffered at Larissa (1568)