Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

February 28

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

1. St. Basil the Confessor, companion of St. Procopius at Decapolis.
2. Saints Marina, Cyra, and Domnica (Domnina), nuns of Syria.
3. Hieromartyr Proterius, Patriarch of Alexandria.
4. Hieromartyr Nestor, Bishop of Magydos in Pamphilia.
5. Apostles Nymphas and Eubulus.
6. Blessed Nicholas of Salos of Pskov, fool-for-Christ.
7. New-Martyr Kyr-Anna.
8. St. Romanus, desert-dweller of Condat in the Jura Mountains (Gaul).
9. Greek Calendar
   • Six Holy Martyrs of Egypt.
   • St. Barsus of Damascus, Bishop Martyr Abercius.
   • St. Shio of Georgia, monk.
10. Repose of Arsenius Matseivich, Metropolitan of Rostov (1772).
11. St. John Cassian the Roman, abbot.
    (Commemorated on February 28 / March 13 in non-leap years)
12. St. John, called Barsanuphius, of Nitria in Egypt.
13. Martyr Theocteristus, abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa.
14. St. Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves.
15. St. Meletius, Bishop of Kharkov.