Thursday, August 15, 1996

From the Synaxarion

• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoane a Maicii Domnului din Agiasos
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoane a Maicii Domnului „Neamonitissa” de la Mănăstirea Nea Moni din Chios
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoane a Maicii Domnului „Panaghia Soumela”

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)

• Maria
• Marian
• Mariana
• Marioara
• Mărioara