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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Sfânta Cuvioasă Muceniță Evloghia de la Samurcășești

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Sfânta Cuvioasă Muceniță Evloghia de la Samurcășești
Sfântul Mucenic Bonifatie
Sfântul Mucenic Trifon
Sfânta Cuvioasă Aglaia
Sfântul Ierarh Grichentie, Episcopul Etiopiei

Fasting today

Fish allowed

Lenten food, with fish, oil and wine.

Nativity 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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