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Wednesday, November 20, 1996

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Sfântul Cuvios Grigorie Decapolitul

Sfântul Mucenic Dasie

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

The whole synaxarion of the day (1)

Sfintele fecioare, Tecla, Vautha și Denahida Pre Tecla, Vautha, Denahida, înțeleptele fecioare,

From the Menaion for November, 1927

Fasting today

Fast day

No meat, dairy, eggs or fish.

Nativity Fast · fast day

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

There are no name days in the calendar on this day.

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