4 Марта 1809 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Saturday, March 4, 1809 (February 20, 1809 by the Julian calendar)
2^nd Week of the Great Lent, Tone five

Great Lent. Parents’ Saturday. Remembrance of the dead. St. Leo, bishop of Catania in Sicily (ca. 780). Abbot Macarius and 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery martyred by the Lutherans: hieromonk Titus, schemamonk Tikhon, monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Silvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Simonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, and Serapion, and novices Varlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John (1578). St. Agatho, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (13th-l4th c.). Beheading of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov Caves (1570), and his disciple St. Bassian of Murom. Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (342). St. Agatho, pope of Rome (682). St. Bessarion the Great, wonderworker of Egypt (466) (Greek). St. Cindeus, bishop of Pisidia (Greek). Hieromartyr Eleutherius, bishop in Byzantium (2nd c.). St. Eleutherius, bishop of Tournai (531). St. Eucherius, bishop of Orleans (740).