Scripture Readings
Thursday, May 4, 1989
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Bright Thursday. Virgin Martyr Pelagía of Tarsus in Asia Minor (ca. 290). The Alfanov (Sokol’nitsky) brethren: Ss. Nikḗtas, Kirill, Nikifor, Clement, and Isaac, of Novgorod (14th-15th c.). Holy Confessor Erasmus, Bishop of Formia in Campania (303). Hieromartyr Silvanus, Bishop of Gaza, and with him 40 Martyrs (311). Ven. Nikēphóros of Mt. Athos (1300). New Martyr Vasily (1945).