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Saturday, April 6, 1996

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Lazarus Saturday

Sfântul Sfințit Mucenic Irineu, Episcop de Sirmium

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Fasting today

Oil and wine allowed

Lenten food cooked with oil; a little wine is allowed. No fish.

Great Lent · Lazarus Saturday

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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