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Friday, May 4, 2012

Feast of the day

Blue cross feast (Romanian saint)

Sfânta Cuvioasă Mavra de pe Ceahlău

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Sfânta Cuvioasă Mavra de pe Ceahlău
Sfânta Muceniță Pelaghia
Sfântul Cuvios Ilarion
Sfântul Cuvios Valerian
Sfântul Ierarh Atanasie, Episcopul Corintului
Sfânta Cuvioasă Monica, mama Fericitului Augustin
Sfântul Cuvios Nichifor
Mutarea moaștelor Sfântului și Dreptului Lazăr la Constantinopol

Fasting today

Fast day

No meat, dairy, eggs or fish.

On Fridays, in remembrance of the Crucifixion of the Lord

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)

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Name days

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