Saturday, April 18, 2009

From the Synaxarion

• Cinstirea Sfintei Icoanei a Maicii Domnului „a Sfântului Maxim”
• Sfântul Mucenic Ioan din Ianina
• Sfântul Ierarh Ioan, Arhiepiscopul Antiohiei
• Sfântul Ierarh Cosma Mărturisitorul, Episcopul Calcedonului
• Sfântul Cuvios Ioan, ucenicul Sfântului Grigorie Decapolitul

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.