Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

February 22

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

1. March 6 Opening of the Relics of Holy Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople.
2. Martyrs Maurice and his son Photinus, and Martyrs Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria.
3. Saints Thalassius, Limnaeus, and Baradates, hermits of Syria.
4. St. Athanasius the confessor of Constantinople.
5. St. Telesphorus, pope of Rome.
6. St. Peter the Stylite of Mt. Athos.
7. New-Martyr Theoktista Michailovna, fool-for-Christ of Voronezh (1936).
8. New-Martyr priest Michael Lisicin (1918).
9. Greek Calendar
   • Martyr Anthusa and her 12 servants.
   • St. Blaise, Bishop
10. Repose of "Golden Grits" (Gregory) (1855)
11. Repose of Schema-nun Avramia of Kashin (1855).