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Thursday, August 29, 1957

Feast of the day

Great Feast (red cross)

Tăierea Capului Sfântului Proroc Ioan Botezătorul

Acatistul Sfântului Ioan Botezătorul (opens in a new tab)

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Sfânta Muceniță Sabina din Roma

Fasting today

Fast day

No meat, dairy, eggs or fish.

Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

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)

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Name days

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