Scripture Readings

Friday, April 21, 2017

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Bright Friday — The “Lifegiving Fountain” Icon of the Most-holy Theotokos. — Appearance of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Footprint” at Pochaev. Hieromartyr Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proculus, and Sosius—Deacons, Desiderius—Reader, and Eutychius and Acutius—laymen, at Pozzuoli (ca. 305). Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother, Philippa, and Martyrs Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius (2nd c.). Martyrs Isaac, Apollos, and Quadratus, of Nicomedia (303). St. Maximian, Patriarch of Constantinople (434). The Recovery of the Relics of Saint Theodore of Sanaxar (1791).