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Today's feasts March 3 2026: Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of Comana (308); Venerable Piama of Egypt, virgin (337); Hieromartyr Theodoretus, Bishop, of Antioch, by beheading (361-363); Venerable Alexandra of Alexandria (4th century); Venerable Saints Zenon and Zoilus; Venerable Shio Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th century); Saint John IV (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1001); Saint John V (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1048); Martyrs Hemeterius and Cheledonius, believed to have been soldiers, suffered in Calahorra in Old Castile (ca. 298) Saint Camilla, disciple of St Germanus of Auxerre, where she lived as an anchoress (ca. 437); Martyrs Felix, Luciolus, Fortunatus, Marcia and Companions, a group of forty martyrs in North Africa; Saint Winwaloe, Abbot of Landévennec Abbey, Brittany (ca. 530); Saint Titian of Brescia, Germanic by birth, became Bishop of Brescia in Italy (ca. 536); Saint Caluppan of Auvergne in Gaul (576); Saint Non (Nonnita, Nonna), mother of St. David of Wales (6th century); Saint Foila (Faile), virgin of Galway, sister of St Colgan (6th century); Saint Arthelais, one of the patron-saints of Benevento in Italy, where she fled from Constantinople (6th century); Saint Lamalisse (Molaise of Leighlin), a hermit in Scotland, he left his name to the islet of Lamlash off the coast of the Isle of Arran in Scotland (7th century); Saint Sacer (Mo-Sacra, Mosacra), founder of the monastery of Saggart near Dublin in Ireland (7th century); Saint Cele-Christ (Christicola), otherwise "Worshipper of Christ", a hermit who became a Bishop of Leinster (ca. 728); Saint Anselm, Abbott, founder of a monastery at Fanano, and the Nonantola Abbey (803); Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg, wife of Henry II, founder of Kaufungen Abbey (1039); Holy 9 Martyrs of Georgia (Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze), at Marabda (1625) (see also August 3); Virgin-martyr Martha Kovrova and martyr Michael Stroeva (1938); Other Commemorations: Synaxis of the Volokolamsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1572); Commemoration of Job Boretsky, Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All-Rus' (1620-1631); Commemoration of Grigory Lisovsky, Metropolitan of Poltava (1927). ( February 18 2026: Julian Calendar ) Martyrs Leo and Parigorius of Patara in Lycia (c. 258); Venerable Agapitus the Confessor and Wonderworker, Bishop of Synnada in Phrygia (c. 308-324); Martyrs Victor, Dorotheus, Theodoulus, and Agrippa, at Synnada in Phrygia Salutaris, who suffered under Licinius (c. 308-324); Martyr Piulius (Publius), by the sword; Saint Flavian the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (c. 449) (see also February 16); Saint Leo the Great, Pope of Rome (461) (see also November 10 - West); Saint Blaise of Amorion and Mt. Athos (c. 908); Saints Maximus, Claudius, Praepedigna, Alexander and Cutias, martyrs in Rome who suffered under Diocletian (295) (see also August 11); Saints Lucius, Silvanus, Rutulus, Classicus, Secundinus, Fructulus and Maximus, martyrs in North Africa; Saint Helladius of Toledo, Archbishop of Toledo and Confessor (632); Venerable Colman of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne and Confessor (676); Saint Ethelina (Eudelme), the patroness of Little Sodbury, now in Gloucestershire in England; Saint Angilbert, Abbot of St. Riquier in the north of France where there were some 300 monks (c. 740-814); Venerable Cosmas, founder of Yakhromsk Monastery, Vladimir (1492); Saint Nicholas V of Georgia, Catholicos of Georgia (1591); New Hieromartyr Alexander Medvedsky, Priest (1932); New Hieromartyr Vladimir Terentiev, Priest (1933); New Hieromartyr Benjamin, Hieromonk (1938); Virgin-martyr Anna (1940); Other Commemorations: Yakhromsk Icon of the Mother of God; Finding of the relics (1961) of New Martyr Irene of Mytilene (1463) (see also May 12 - Greek); Commemoration of the New Martyrs who suffered during the “Holy Night” in St. Petersburg (1932); Repose of Schemamonk Constantine (Cavarnos), spiritual writer (2011). Featured article The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora." Recently featured: Raphael Morgan, Holy Week, Georges Florovsky, Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria, Paschal Homily, Pachomius the Great. View all featured articles.

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