February 26, 2011 The Saturday of the Dead. Tone six. Venerable Martinian, monk, of Caesarea in Palestine (422). New Hieromartyrs Basil and Gabriel priests (1919). New Hieromartyr Silvester (Olshevsky) bishop of Omsk and Pavlodar (1920). New Hieromartyrs Zosimas, Nicholas, Basil, John, Leontius, Vladimir, Parthenius, John, John, Michael priests and Eugine

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February 25, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Fast. Fish Allowed Iveron Icon (Moscow) of the Most Holy Theotokos (9th c.). St. Meletius, archbishop of Antioch (381). St. Alexis, metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of all Russia (1378). St. Meletius, archbishop of Kharkov (1840). New Hieromartyr Alexius (Buy),

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February 24, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Hieromartyr Blaise, bishop of Sebaste (316). St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), prince and wonderworker of Pskov (1138). Venerable Demetrius, monk of Priluki (Vologda) (1392). St. Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast (867). St. Gobnait, abbess of Ballyvourney, Cork

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February 23, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Fast. Fish Allowed Hieromartyr Charalampus, bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly, and Martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus (202). New Hieromartyrs Peter and Valerian priests (1930). New Martyr Anatole (Greesiuk), metropolitan of Odessa (1938). St. Anna of Novgorod, wife of Yaroslav I (1050).

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February 22, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch (ca. 257). Uncovering of the relics (1805) of St. Innocent of Irkutsk (1731). New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1930). New Hieromartyr John priest (1938). Venerable Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). Venerables Gennadius (1516) and

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Hieromonk Paul, and Monk Moses The celebration of the Divine Liturgy February 21, 2011 Week of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates (“the General”) of Heraclea (319). Prophet Zechariah, from among the 12 Minor Prophets (520 BC). St. Lyubov of Ryazan, fool-for Christ (1921). New Hieromartyrs Simeon, Andrew,

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Full Moon over the Monastery February 20, 2011 Sunday of the Prodigal Son. Tone six. Venerable Parthenius, bishop of Lampsacus on the Hellespont (4th c.). Venerable Luke of Mt. Steirion (953). New Hieromartyr Barlaam, archbishop of Perm (1937). New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1938). New Hieromartyr Alexis priest (1942). The 1,003

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All-Merciful Saviour Monastery February 19, 2011 Week of the Publican and the Pharisee. Tone five. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Venerable Bucolus, bishop of Smyrna (ca. 100). New Hieromartyrs Demetrius priest and Martyr Anatolius (1921). New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1930). New Hieromartyr Priest Basil Nadezhnin of Moscow, (1937). New Hieromartyr Alexanderpriest (1938).

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Hammi, our beloved Norwegian Forest Cat February 18, 2011 Week of the Publican and the Pharisee. Tone five. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Holy Martyr Agatha of Palermo in Sicily (251). St. Theodosius, archbishop of Chernigov (1696). New Martyrs Matushka Agatha (1938), and with her Schemamonk Eugene (1939) and Righteous Paramon (1941),

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Baronessa Madeline D’Atri Rippo February 17, 2011 Week of the Publican and the Pharisee. Tone five. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Venerable Isidore of Pelusium, monk (436-440). St. George, prince of Vladimir (1238). Venerable Cyril, abbot, wonderworker of New Lake (Novgorod) (1532). New Hieromartyr Methodius bishop of Petropavlovsk (1921). New Hieromartyrs Eustaphius,

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