Orthodox Calendar 2000                                                 

March 2000

11th of March in Old Style
24th of March in New Style

Friday

St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (644). Repose of St. Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod, (1458). Hieromartyr Pionius of Smyrna and with him: Ascelapides, Macedonia, Linus and Sabina (250). Translation of relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, same as 31 - Oct. (9th cen.). St. George, abbot of Sinai (6th cen.). St. Angus of Keld, compiler of first Irish martyrology. St. Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves. St. George the New, wonderworker of Constantinople. St. Theodora, queen of Arta, wife of despot Michael II of Epirus. Repose of Elder Alexius of Goloseyevsky Skete in Kiev (1917). 
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts.

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