5 Марта 1961 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, March 5, 1961 (February 20, 1961 by the Julian calendar)
The 2-nd Sunday of the Great Lent, Tone six

Great Lent. St. Gregory Palamas the Archbishop of Thessalonica (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent). Synaxis of all Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of the Great Lent). 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).