16 March 1959, Monday (03.03 according to the old style)
Clean Monday. Beginning of Great Lent
Saints commemorated
- Hierarch Saint John (Ioane) IV Okropiri (the Chrysostom), Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia ок. 980–1001
- Martyr Cleonicus of Amasea † ок. 308
- Martyr Eutropius of Amasea †ок. 308
- Venerable Piama (Piamoun) of Alexandria III—IV вв., † 337