24 Февраля 1855 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, February 24, 1855 (February 12, 1855 by the Julian calendar)
1^st Week of the Great Lent, Tone three

Great Lent. Great Martyr Theodore Tyro (306) (movable holiday on Saturday of the 1st week of the Great Lent). St. Meletius, archbishop of Antioch (381). + St. Alexis, metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of all Russia (1378). Iveron Icon (Moscow) of the Most Holy Theotokos (9th c.). St. Mary, nun (who was called Marinus), and her father, St. Eugene, monk, at Alexandria (6th c.). St. Anthony II, patriarch of Constantinople (895). St. Meletius, archbishop of Kharkov (1840). St. Bassian, disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich and abbot of Ryabovsky Forest Monastery, Uglich (1509). Callia, righteous. St. Gertrude of Nijvel, abbess (659) (Neth.). St. Ethilwald of Lindisfarne (740) (Celtic & British). New Martyr Chrestos at Constantinople (1748) (Greek). St. Kristo the Gardener (1752) (Albania). New Hieromartyr Alexius (Buy), bishop of Voronezh (1930). New Martyr Mitrophan, archpriest (1931). Hieromartyr Urban us, bishop of Rome (223-230). St. Prochorus of Georgia (11th c.). New Monk-martyr Luke (Mukhaidze) of Jerusalem (1277). New Monk-martyr Nicholas Dvali of Jerusalem (1314).