8 March 1976, Monday (24.02 according to the old style)
Clean Monday. Beginning of Great Lent
Saints commemorated
- Hieromartyr Polycarp of Smyrna ок. 69/80 — ок. 155/167
- Venerable Erasmus of the Kiev Caves кон. XI — 1160-е (†ок. 1160)
- Venerable Polycarp of Bryansk XVI в. — 1620/1621
- Righteous Gorgonia of Nazianzus IV век, †ок. 370-375
- Righteous Holy Righteous Matrona of Moscow 1881–1952