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Святитель Порфирий, архиепископ Газский
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2nd Week of Great Lent. Second Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead. Tone 4.
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Wine and oil allowed.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Porphyrius, bishop of Gaza (420).

Sts. Photina, the Samaritan woman, and her sisters Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca; her sons Victor [or Photinus] and Joses; Sebastian the Duke, the officer Anatolius, and Theoclitus, the former sorcerer—all martyred under Nero (ca. 66) St. Sebastian, founder of Sokhotsk Monastery (Yaroslavl) (ca. 1500).

New Hieromartyr John (Pashin), bishop of Rylsk (1938).

Mezhetsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.

New Martyr John the Cabinetmaker, at Constantinople (1575).

Articles

St. Porphyrius the Bishop of Gaza

Having the inclination for monastic life, he left his native region at twenty-five years of age and set off for Egypt, where he lived in the Nitrian desert under the guidance of Saint Macarius the Great (January 19).

St Photini, The Samaritan Woman

A significant figure in the Johannine community, the Samaritan Woman, like many other women, contributed to the spread of Christianity. She therefore occupies a place of honour among the apostles. In Greek sermons from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries she is called "apostle" and "evangelist."

Martyr Photina (Svetlana), the Samaritan Woman, and Her Sons

During the time of the emperor Nero (54-68), who displayed excessive cruelty against Christians, Saint Photina lived in Carthage with her younger son Joses and fearlessly preached the Gospel there.

Venerable Sebastian of Poshekhonye

Saint Sebastian of Sokhota, Poshekhonye, founded a monastery in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord, located at the River Sokhota, 90 versts from the city of Romanov (now Tutaev) in the Yaroslav district.
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