Friday, April 21, 2006

From the Synaxarion

• Sfânta Muceniță Alexandra, Împărăteasa
• Sfântul Sfințit Mucenic Ianuarie, Episcop de Benevent
• Sfântul Mucenic Teodor din Perga

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)

• Alexandra