Scripture Readings
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Fifth Saturday of Lent — Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-holy Theotokos. St. Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium (8th c.). Hieromartyr Zeno, Bishop of Verona (ca. 260). Ven. Isaac the Syrian, Abbot of Spoleto (550). Monastic Martyrs Menas, David, and John, of Palestine (7th c.). Venerable Anthusa of Constantinople (801). Ven. Athanasia, Abbess, of Aegina (860). Ven. Acacius the Younger, of Kavsokalyvia (Mt. Athos—1730). Transfer of the Holy Zone of Theotokos to Constantinople (942).