Wednesday, April 21, 1954

From the Synaxarion

• Sfânta Muceniță Alexandra, Împărăteasa Alexandra se bucurà de întunecoasa închisoare. Așteptând ca să-i pricinuiască cunună strălucitoare. Doi nevoitori suferă…
• Sfântul Sfințit Mucenic Ianuarie, Episcop de Benevent
• Sfântul Mucenic Teodor din Perga

Fasting today

• No weddings
  No weddings

  The Mystery of Marriage is not celebrated on fasting days (Wednesdays, Fridays and the four fasts), from Meatfare Sunday to Thomas Sunday, between Christmas and Theophany, on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and on the eve and the day of the Great Feasts.

  Source: Calendar of the Romanian Patriarchate, “No weddings” (opens in a new tab)

• Alexandra