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Monday, February 24, 1969

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Beginning of Great Lent

Întâia și a doua aflare a Capului Sfântului Ioan, Înaintemergătorul și Botezătorul Domnului

Sfântul Cuvios Petroniu de la Prodromu

Acatistul Sfântului Ioan Botezătorul (opens in a new tab)

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Fasting today

Strict fast (dry eating)

Dry eating: bread, uncooked vegetables and fruit, water. No oil.

Great Lent · the beginning of Great Lent

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)

Recipes for this day

Name days

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