Scripture Readings

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Second Saturday of Lent — Memorial Saturday. 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).