29 February
12 commemorations of 29 February in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 13 March of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Saint Leo of Cappadocia, monasticholytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- Venerable John Cassian the Roman, Abbot of Monastery of St Victor, Marseille (435)Ὁ Ὅσιος Κασσιανὸς ὁ Ρωμαῖοςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Germanus of Dacia Pontica (Dobrogea, Romania) (c. 415)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γερμανὸς ἐκ Ρουμανίαςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable John, called Barsanuphius, of Nitria in Egypt (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint George the Confessor, Bishop of Defeltos (7th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Ὁμολογητής Ἐπίσκοπος Δεφέλτουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyr Theocteristus, Abbot of Pelekete Monastery near Prusa (8th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (12th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Cassian of Mu Lake (Muezersk) Hermitage, disciple of St. Alexander of Svir (16th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Arsenius (Matseyevich), Archbishop of Rostov (1772)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρσένιος Μητροπολίτης Ροστὼβsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Kharkiv and Akhtyr (1840)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μελέτιος Ἐπίσκοπος Χαρκώβsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York (992)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- "Devpeteruv" Icon of the Mother of God (1392)holytrinityorthodox.com
The list is February 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.