Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

February 20

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

1. March 4 St. Leo, Bishop of Catania in Sicily.
2. St. Agatho, pope of Rome.
3. Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him.
4. Beheading of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov Caves, and his disciple St. Bessian of Murom.
5. St. Agatho, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves.
6. St. Bessarion the Great, wonderworker of Egypt.
7. Greek Calendar
   • St. Cindeus, Bishop of Pisidia.
   • St. Plotinus, monk.
8. Abbot Macarius and 34 monks and novices of Valaam martyred by the Lutherans (1578).