February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Feb. 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 21

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 5 (March 4) by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Saint Leo of Catania in Sicily, bishop
• Saint Agatho of Rome, Pope
• Martyrs Sadoc of Persia, bishop, and 128 with him
• Beheading of Saint Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov Caves
• Saint Agatho, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves Monastery
• Saint Bessarion the Great, wonderworker of Egypt
• Saint Cindeus of Pisidia, bishop
• Saint Plotinus, monk
• Martyrs Macarius and 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery, killed by the Lutherans (1578)