Bright Week. Fast-free period.
Holy Glorious Great-martyr, Victory-bearer, and Wonderworker George (303). Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian (314). Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon , soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of St. George; and Martyrs Glycerius and Athanasius the Magician, at Nicomedia (303) Blessed George of Shenkursk, fool-for-Christ (1462). Martyr Therinus of Bothrotus in Epirus (ca. 250). St. Adalbert (Voitech), bishop of Prague (997). New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Ptolomais (1752). New Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria, at Pergamus (1802). King Solomon I of Imeretia (Georgia) (1784). New Hieromartyr Sergius Zacharczuk, priest, of Nabroz (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943). St. Sophia of the Panagia Kleisoura Monastery (1974). Repose of Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhni-Novgorod (1963).