March 8th, 1829

Sunday · March 8, 1829(Julian: Feb 24)

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Clean Monday · Great Lent begins

Major FeastDairy

Fasting

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Fast

Dairy Allowed (Cheesefare Week)

You may eat

Dairy, eggs, fish, wine, oil, vegetables — but no meat.

To avoid

Meat.

Feasts of the Day

Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
Major feast

Lives of the Saints

✚St. Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia

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Feasts of the Day

Clean Monday · Great Lent begins
Major feast

Lives of the Saints

✚St. Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia

March 1829

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Cheesefare Week begins

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Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bisho

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Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonicus

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St. Gerasimus of the Jordan

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Martyr Conon of Isauria

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The 42 Martyrs of Ammorion

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Forgiveness Sunday (Cheesefare Sunday)

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Clean Monday · Great Lent begins

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Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebast

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Martyr Codratus of Corinth a

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St. Sophronius, Patriarch of

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St. Theophanes the Confessor

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Translation of the relics of

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St. Benedict of Nursia

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Sunday of Orthodoxy (Triumph of Orthodoxy)

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Martyr Sabinus of Egypt

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St. Alexis, Man of God

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St. Cyril of Jerusalem

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Martyrs Chrysanthus and Dari

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Holy Fathers slain at the Mo

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St. James the Confessor, Bis

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Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas

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Venerable Martyr Nikon and h

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Forefeast of the Annunciatio

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Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos

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Synaxis of the Archangel Gab

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Matrona of Thessalonica

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St. Hilarion the New

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Sunday of the Holy Cross (Adoration of the Cross)

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St. John Climacus, author of

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Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop

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Legend

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Strict fast

no oil/wine/fish

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Wine & oil

no fish

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Fish allowed

+ wine & oil

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Dairy week

no meat

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Fast free

all foods

Great feast Major feast