February 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Oct 30, 2023

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Feb. 28 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 1

On non-leap years, the commemorations below are celebrated on February 28.

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 13 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 16.

Saints

Saint Leo of Cappadocia, monastic.

Venerable John Cassian the Roman, Abbot of Monastery of St Victor, Marseille (435)

Saint Germanus of Dacia Pontica (Dobrogea, Romania) (c. 415)

Venerable John, called Barsanuphius, of Nitria in Egypt (5th century)

Saint George the Confessor, Bishop of Defeltos (7th century)

Martyr Theocteristus, Abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (8th century)

Saint Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York (992)

Venerable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (12th century)

Saint Cassian of Mu Lake Hermitage, disciple of St. Alexander of Svir (16th century)

Saint Arsenius (Matseyevich), Archbishop of Rostov (1772)

Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Kharkov and Akhtyr (1840) (see also: February 12)

"Devpeteruv" Icon of the Mother of God (1392)

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