March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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March 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 6

Contents 1 2006 2 Fixed commemorations 3 Saints 4 Other commemorations

[edit] 2006

• Sunday of Forgiveness (see Paschal cycle)
• Cheese-Fare Sunday (the last day dairy products, fish, wine, and olive oil are to be consumed, before Pascha)

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All commemorations below are observed on March 18 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st century)
• Martyr Conon the Gardener of Pamphylia (3rd century)
• Virgin martyr Irais of Antinoe in Egypt (308)
• Martyr Eulogius of Palestine
• Martyr Eulampius of Palestine
• Martyr Onisius of Isauria (1st century)
• Saint Hesychius the Faster of Bithynia (790s)
• Saint Mark the Faster of Egypt (5th century)
• Martyrs Archelaus and 152 others in Egypt
• Saint Adrian of Poshekhnoye, monk, and his fellow ascetic

[edit] Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Saints Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslav, and his children David and Constantine (1464)