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March 10
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March 23
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2nd Week of Great Lent. Second Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead.
Tone 1.
Great Lent. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Martyr Codratus (Quadratus) and with him Martyrs Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, Crescens, and Dionysius (another), at Corinth (258). St. Paul of Taganrog (1879).
Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (3rd c.). St. Anastasia the Patrician, of Alexandria (567-568). St. Alexander (Badanin), priest, of Vologda (1913).
Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias, and others, at Corinth (251 or 258). St. Kessog of Lennox (520). St. Attalus, abbot, of Bobbio (626). St. John of Khakhuli, Georgia, called Chrysostom (10th c.-11th c.). New Martyr Michael of Agrapha, at Thessalonica (1544).
Commemoration of the desert-dwellers of the Roslavl Forests, near Bryansk.
Articles
 Martyr Quadratus and those with him at CorinthSaint Quadratus, despite inhuman suffering, encouraged the others, urging them not to be afraid and to stand firmly for the Faith. |
 Saint Anastasia the Patrician of AlexandriaSaint Anastasia the Patrician of Alexandria lived in Constantinople and was descended from an aristocratic family. |
