Feasts
Synaxis of Ss.
Simeon and
Anna;
Postfeast of the
Meeting of the Lord; Saint
Ansgar,
Bishop of Hamburg,
Apostle of the North, and
Enlightener of Denmark and Sweden;
Nicholas,
Equal-to-the-Apostles,
Archbishop and Enlightener of
Japan (
Old Calendar date; see also February 16);
Prophet Azarias;
Martyrs Adrian and Eubulus at Caesaria in Cappadocia; Saint Symeon, first Bishop of Tver; Saint Romanus, prince of Uglich;
New-Martyrs Stamatius and John, brothers, and Nicholas, their companion; Saint James (or Jacob), Archbishop of Serbia; Martyrs Papias, Diodorus, and Claudanus at Perge in Pamphylia; Martyr Blaise of Caesaria in Cappadocia; Saint Arsenius Ikaltoeli; Saint Ia, virgin of St. Ives; Saint Werburga,
Abbess of Hanbury; Saint
Lawrence,
Archbishop of Canterbury (see also
February 2); Saint Vlasios, the Cowherd; Martyrs Paul and Simon; Saint Claudios.
Other events: repose of
Schemamonk Paul of Simonov
Monastery,
disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky, and
Hieromonk Isidore of Gethsemane
Skete, Moscow
