Scripture Readings

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Fifth Saturday of Lent — Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-holy Theotokos. Ven. Joseph the Hymnographer (883). Ven. George of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus (6th c.). Ven. Joseph the Much-ailing, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—14th c.). Ven. Zosimas, Abbot of Vorbozómsk (ca. 1550). Ven. Zosimas, of Palestine (4th c.). Virgin Martyr Pherbutha of Persia, her sister, and servants (341-343). Martyr Niketas of Pojani (1808). St. Isidore, Bishop of Seville (636). Ven. Theonas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (1545). The Life Giving Fountain of the Mother of God (450).