24 February 1969, Monday (11.02 according to the old style)

Clean Monday. Beginning of Great Lent

Saints commemorated

Hieromartyr Blaise of Sebaste † ок. 316 (по другим данным ок. 284-305)
Venerable Cassian the Barefoot of Volokolamsk ок. 1438/1439 — 1532
Venerable Demetrius of Priluki ? — 1392
Venerable Petroniu (Tănase) the Prodromite 1914 — 2011
Right-Believing Right-Believing Empress Theodora, Wife of Theophilos ок. 815–867
Right-Believing Right-Believing Prince Vsevolod, in Holy Baptism Gabriel, of Pskov 1092–1138