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Sixth Week of Great Lent (Palm Week). Lazarus Saturday.
Tone 1.
Great Lent. Caviar, wine and oil allowed. |
 Caviar, wine and oil allowed.
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Lazarus Saturday 
Hieromartyr Basil, priest, of Ancyra (363).
Virgin-confessor Drosis of Antioch, daughter of Emperor Trajan, and with her five Virgin-martyrs (ca. 104-117). St. Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (4th c.). New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia (Grineva) of Kiev (1941).
Martyrs Callinica and Basilissa, of Rome (2nd c.). St. Paul, bishop of Narbonne, Brittany (3rd c.). New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Demitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814). St. Artemon, bishop of Seleucia (1st c.).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Saturday. [Heb. 12:28–13:8; John 11:1–45]
To whomever has work-loving Martha, who symbolizes comprehensive good works, and who has Mary sitting at Jesus’ feet, symbolizing an attentive and warm appeal to the Lord with all the heart, the Lord Himself will come and will resurrect Lazarus, who symbolizes his spirit, and will release him from all his emotional and fleshly bonds. Then a truly new life will begin in him, bodiless in the body and unearthly on the earth. It will be a true resurrection in the spirit before the future resurrection, which will be together with the body!
Articles
 Lazarus Saturday |
 Martyr Drosis the Daughter of the Emperor TrajanSaint Drosis was daughter of the emperor Trajan (98-117), a fierce persecutor of Christians. |
 Venerable Isaac the Founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at ConstantinopleSaint Isaac lived during the fourth century, received monastic tonsure and pursued ascetic labors in the desert. |
