Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple.
Saints
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Agricola, the eleventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium (420)
- Saint Avitus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne, Gaul (520)
- Saints Genuinus (Ingenuinus), Bishop of Sabiona, and Albinus (7th century)
- Saint Bertulf of Renty (O.S.B.) (705)
- Saint Indract of Glastonbury (c. 710) (see also: May 8)
- Saint Modestus, Bishop of Carinthia and Apostle of Carantania (c. 722)
- Saint Vodoaldus (Voel, Vodalus, Vodalis), born in Ireland, he went to France and reposed as a hermit near Soissons (c. 725)
- Saint Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (c. 1015)
- Saint Agatha Hildegard of Carinthia, wife of the Count of Carinthia in Austria (1024)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Theodosius of Chernigov, Archbishop of Chernigov (1696)
- New Martyr Anthony of Athens, at Constantinople (1774)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyrs Matushka Agatha (Agafia) (1938), and with her Schemamonk Eugene (1939) and Righteous Paramon (1941), of Belorussia.
- Virgin-martyr Alexandra, and martyr Michael (1942)
Other commemorations
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Eletsk-Chernigov" (1060)
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Sicilian-Divnogorsky" ("the Rescuer of the Drowning") (1092)
- Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Seeking of the Lost" (17th century)
- Repose of Metropolitan Michael (Jovanovich) of Serbia (1897)
- Repose of Valeriu Gafencu of Bessarabia, Romania (1952)
- Repose of Abbess Agnia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1954)
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Notes
References
Sources
Greek Sources
Russian Sources
- (in Russian) 18 февраля (5 февраля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
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