February 24

The twenty-fourth day of February.

Events

 * 303: Diocletian begins his persecution of Christians.
 * 1527: Various Protestant traditions join under the Anabaptist banner (according to the polygenesis theory).
 * 1527: Mennonites adopt the Schleitheim Confession
 * 1931: Athenagoras Spyrou assumes his position as Orthodox Archbishop of North and South America.

Feast days

 * Shrove Tuesday in 2009.

Eastern Orthodox

 * First and Second Finding of the Head of St. John the Forerunner