20 Марта 1940 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, March 20, 1940 (March 7, 1940 by the Julian calendar)
2^nd Week of the Great Lent, Tone one

Great Lent. The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathodorus (4th c.). New Hieromartyr Nicolos priest (1930). New Hieromartyr Nilus, Virgin-martyrs Matrona, Mary, Eudocia, Ecaterina, Antonina, Nadezhda (1938). St. Paul the Simple of Egypt, disciple of St. Anthony the Great (4th c.). St. Paul the Confessor, bishop of Prusias in Bithynia (850). St. Emilian of Rome. Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety of Sinners" in Korets (1622), Odrin (1843) and Moscow (1848). Sts. Nestor and Arcadius, bishops of Tremithus (Greek). St. Laurence, founder of the monastery of the Mother of God on Salamis (1707) (Greek). St. Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (546). St. Dandus and all Saints of Thrace.