Monday, September 15, 2008

From the Synaxarion

• Sfântul Ierarh Iosif cel Nou de la Partoș, Mitropolitul Banatului
• Sfântul Mare Mucenic Nichita Romanul
• Sfântul Ierarh Visarion, Arhiepiscopul Larisei
• Sfântul Simeon al Tesalonicului
• Sfântul Ierarh Iosif de Alaverdi, Georgia
• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoanei a Maicii Domnului „Novonichita”

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.