February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 3
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February 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Jan. 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 2-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 14 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Martyr Tryphon of Campsada near Apamea in Syria *Venerable Brigid of Ireland...
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 3
February 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feb. 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 4-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 16 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Holy and Righteous Simeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 15 by those churches which follow the Julian CalendarJulian calendar
The Julian calendar began in 45 BC as a reform of the Roman calendar by Julius Caesar. It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year .The Julian calendar has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months...
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Feasts
- The Presentation of our LordPresentation of Jesus at the TempleThe Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, which falls on 2 February, celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and some Eastern Catholic Churches, it is one of the twelve Great Feasts, and is sometimes called Hypapante...
and Savior Jesus Christ in the TempleTemple in JerusalemThe Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple , refers to one of a series of structures which were historically located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock. Historically, these successive temples stood at this location and functioned as the centre of...
(also called The Meeting of the Lord, or Hypapante)
Saints
- MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
Jordan of Trebizond (1650) - Martyr Gabriel at ConstantinopleConstantinopleConstantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
(1672) - Martyr Agathodorus in CappadociaCappadociaCappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province.In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying the whole region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine...
Other commemorations
- Repose of schemamonkMonkA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...
Seraphim of Valaam (1860)