Wednesday, April 12, 2006

From the Synaxarion

• Sfânta Cuvioasă Filofteia de la Pasărea, mama Sfântului Ierarh Calinic de la Cernica
• Sfânta Cuvioasă Antuza
• Sfântul Ierarh Vasile Mărturisitorul, Episcopul Pariei
• Sfânta Cuvioasă Atanasia de la Eghina
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoanei a Maicii Domnului „Belâniciskaia”
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoane a Maicii Domnului din Murom

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.