20 Февраля 1953 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Friday, February 20, 1953 (February 7, 1953 by the Julian calendar)
1^st Week of the Great Lent, Tone three

Great Lent. Parthenius, bishop of Lampsacus on the Hellespont (4th c.). St. Luke of Mt. Steirion (953). New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1938). The 1,003 Martyrs of Nicomedia (303). St. Mastridia of Jerusalem, woman ascetic of the desert (ca. 580). Six Martyrs of Phrygia (305) (Greek). Venerable Peter of Monombateia (Greek). St. Aprionus, bishop of Cyprus (Greek). New Martyr George of Crete (1861 (Greek). St. Avgul, bishop of Brittany, who suffered under Diocletian (ca. 305). New Hieromartyr Barlaam, archbishop of Perm (1937).