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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Sfântul Preot Mucenic Alexandru din Basarabia

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Sfântul Preot Mucenic Alexandru din Basarabia
Sfântul Ierarh Calinic al Edessei
Sfântul Ierarh Emilian Mărturisitorul, Episcopul Cizicului
Sfântul Ierarh Miron, Episcopul Cretei
Cinstirea Sfintei Icoane a Maicii Domnului de pe Tolga (Tolgska)

Fasting today

Oil and wine allowed

Lenten food cooked with oil; a little wine is allowed. No fish.

Dormition Fast · Saturdays and Sundays of the fast

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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