Passion Week.
St. John of the Ancient Caves in Palestine (8th c.). St. Matrona the Blind, of Moscow (1952). Martyrs Christopher , Theonas , and Antoninus , at Nicomedia (303). St. George the Confessor, bishop of Antioch in Pisidia (9th c.). St. Tryphon , patriarch of Constantinople (933). Hieromartyr Paphnutius of Jerusalem. St. Nicephorus , abbot, of Katabad. Uncovering of the relics of St. Joachim, founder of Opochka Monastery (Pskov) (1621). New Hiero-confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), bishop of Glazov (1934). Hieromartyr Alphege , archbishop of Canterbury (1012). St. Symeon the Barefoot, of Philotheou Monastery, Mt. Athos (1594). New Monk-martyr Agathangelus of Esphigmenou, Mt. Athos, at Smyrna (1819). Martyrs Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius (2nd c.). Repose of fool-for-Christ Asenetha of Goritsy (1892) and Hieroschemamonk Alexis of Valaam (1900).