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March 13
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March 26
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2nd Week of Great Lent. Second Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead.
Tone 1.
Великий пост. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Translation of the relics of St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (846).
Martyrs Africanus, Publius, and Terence, at Carthage (3rd c.). Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (305-311). Martyr Christina of Persia (4th c.).
New Hieromartyr Stephen (Bekh), bishop of Izhevsk (1933).
Hieromartyr Publius, bishop of Athens and disciple of St. Dionysius the Areopagite (2nd c.). St. Leander, bishop of Seville (596).
Repose of Elder Ephraim of Valaam (1946) and Bishop Tikhon (Tikhomirov) of Kyrillov (1955).