Monday, April 19, 2010

From the Synaxarion

• Sfântul Sfințit Mucenic Pafnutie
• Sfântul Ierarh Gheorghe Mărturisitorul, Episcopul Antiohiei Pisidiei
• Sfântul Cuvios Ioan de la Lavra Veche

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.