5th Week of Great Lent.
The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete. Martyrs Theodulus , reader, and Agathopodes , deacon, and those with them, at Thessalonica (ca. 303). Translation of the relics of St. Job , patriarch of Moscow (1652). St. Publius of Egypt, monk (4th c.). St. Mark the Anchorite, of Athens (400). Sts. Theonas, Symeon, and Phorbinus, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Plato the Confessor, abbot, of the Studion (814). St. Theodora , nun, of Thessalonica (892). Hieromartyr Nicholas Simo, archpriest, of Kronstadt (1931). Virgin-martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, of Alexandria (304). Venerable Derfel Gadarn of Wales (6th c.). New Martyr George of New Ephesus (1801). New Martyr Panagiotes of Jerusalem (1820). Repose of Righteous Symeon Klimych (1837) and Elder Philemon of Valaam and Jordanville (1953). Martyrdom of Optina monastics Hieromonk Basil and Riassaphore-monks Therapontus and Trophimus, on Pascha (1993).