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Friday, April 6, 2007

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Holy and Great Friday

Sfântul Sfințit Mucenic Irineu, Episcop de Sirmium

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Sfântul Sfințit Mucenic Irineu, Episcop de Sirmium
Sfântul Cuvios Grigorie Sinaitul
Sfântul Ierarh Eutihie, Patriarhul Constantinopolului
Sfânta Cuvioasă Platonida

Fasting today

Strict fast (dry eating)

Dry eating: bread, uncooked vegetables and fruit, water. No oil.

Great Lent · Holy and Great Friday

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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