3 Марта 1949 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, March 3, 1949 (February 18, 1949 by the Julian calendar)
Week of the Last Judgment, Tone three

Entire week. Venerable Shio Mgvime (6th c.) (Georgia) (movable holiday on Thursday of the Cheese-fare Week). St. Leo the Great, pope of Rome (461). St. Agapitus, bishop of Synnada in Phrygia (4th c.). St. Flavian the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (449). St. Cosmas, monk, of Yakhromsk (1492). Martyrs Victor, Dorotheus, Theodulus, and Agrippa, who suffered under Licinius (4th c.). St. Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne (676) (Celtic & British). Martyrs Leo and Parigorius of Patara of Lycia (258) (Greek). New Hieromartyrs Alexander (Medvedsky) (1932) priest and Benjamin hieromonk (1938). St. Blaise, monk of Mt. Athos (9th c.). Finding of relics (1961) of New Martyr Irene of Lesbos (1463). St. Nicholas, catholicos of Georgia (1591). Commemoration of the New Martyrs who suffered during the "Holy Night" in St. Petersburg (1932).