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Saturday, April 26, 2003

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Holy and Great Saturday

Sfinții Mucenici Chiril, Chindeu și Tasie din Axiopolis (Cernavodă)

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Sfinții Mucenici Chiril, Chindeu și Tasie din Axiopolis (Cernavodă)
Sfântul Sfințit Mucenic Vasilevs, Episcopul Amasiei
Cei șase mii de mucenici de la Mănăstirea Sfântul David Gareji, Georgia
Sfânta Cuvioasă Glafira

Fasting today

Fast day

No meat, dairy, eggs or fish.

Great Lent · Holy and Great 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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