17th of February

On the 17th of the month, we celebrate the Memory of the Holy Great Martyr THEODORE TYRON (CONSCRIPT); the pious Sovereigns MARCIAN and PULCHERIA; our Holy Father AUXIBIUS, Bishop of SOLI in CYPRUS; the Holy New Martyr THEODORE of BYZANTIUM, who was hanged at Mytilene in 1795; Saint HERMOGENES, Patriarch of MOSCOW and of all RUSSIA; our Venerable Father BARNABAS of the GETHSEMANE Skete

St. Theodore the Conscript