Scripture Readings
Saturday, March 23, 1991
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Fifth Saturday of Lent — Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-holy Theotokos. Martyr Nikon and 199 disciples with him in Sicily (251). Ven. Nikon, Abbot of the Kiev Caves (1088). Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife, Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, Chronides the Notary, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (117-138). Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1600). Monastic Martyr Luke of St. Anne’s Skete (Mt. Athos—1802).