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Monday February 23, 2026 / February 10, 2026

Beginning of the Great Lent. Tone four.
Great Lent. By Monastic Charter - Full abstention from food

Clean Monday.
Hieromartyr Charalampus, bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly, and Martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus (202).
New Hieromartyrs Peter and Valerian priests (1930).
New Martyr Anatole (Greesiuk), metropolitan of Odessa (1938).
St. Anna of Novgorod, wife of Yaroslav I (1050).
Venerable Prochorus of the Kiev Caves (1107).
Venerable Longinus, monk, of Koryazhemka (Vologda) (1540).
St. Galina (III).
Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina, and Paula of Palestine (308).
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Areovindus ("Fiery Vision").
Synaxis of Novgorod Hierarchs: Sts. Joachim (1030), Luke the Jew (1058), Germanus (1095), Arcadius (1162), Gregory (1193), Martyrius (1199), Anthony (1232), Basil (1352), Moses (1362), Symeon (1421), Gennadius (1504), Pimen (1571), and Athonius (1648).
St. Anastasius II, archbishop of Jerusalem (706) (Greek).
Martyr Charalampus (another) and three women companions (Greek).
St. Scholastica of Italy, sister of St. Benedict (543).
St. John Chimchimeli of Bachkovo and Gremi (13th c.) (Georgia).
St. Merwinna, abbess of Romsey.

The Scripture Readings

Isaiah 1:1-20 (svenska) · Isaiah 1:1-20 (engelska) (6th Hour)
Genesis 1:1-13 (svenska) · Genesis 1:1-13 (engelska) (Vespers, 1st Reading)
Proverbs 1:1-20 (svenska) · Proverbs 1:1-20 (engelska) (Vespers, 2nd Reading)