2 Марта 1969 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 2, 1969 (February 17, 1969 by the Julian calendar)
1-st Sunday of the Great Lent, Triumph of Orthodoxy, Tone five

Great Lent. “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from the village Staromniy, Moscow region (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday of the Great Lent). [.:] Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro (306). St. Hermogenes, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1612). St. Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). St. Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip (1st c.). Uncovering of the relics (867-869) of Martyr Menas the Melodius of Alexandria (ca. 313). St. Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne (661) (Celtic & British). St. Auxibius, bishop of Soli in Cyprus (102) (Greek). New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mitylene (1795) (Greek). Emperor Marcian (457) and Pulcheria, his wife (453), and the commemoration of the dedication of the Great Church in Constantinople (Greek). St. Theodosius the Bulgarian and his disciple St. Romanus, monks, of Turnovo (1362) (Bulgaria). New Martyr Michael Mavroeidis of Adrianople (1490). New Martyr Theodore, hieromonk of Adjara, who suflfered under the Turks on Mt. Athos (19th c.). St. Barnabas, elder of the Gethsemane Skete of St. Sergius Lavra (1906). St. Nicholas (Planas), priest in Athens (1932).