Wednesday, December 19, 2001

From the Synaxarion

• Sfânta Cuvioasă Muceniță Evloghia de la Samurcășești
• Sfântul Mucenic Bonifatie
• Sfântul Mucenic Trifon
• Sfânta Cuvioasă Aglaia
• Sfântul Ierarh Grichentie, Episcopul Etiopiei

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)

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