Today is a
DraftWednesday & Friday Fast
Strict Fast
All fasting foods abstained
Wednesday & Friday Fast. The fast is strict today: no meat, dairy, fish, wine, or oil.
Commemorated today
- St Andrew of Crete
- Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexei, and Grand duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and those martyred with them (1918).
- St Martha, mother of St Symeon of the Wonderful Mountain (551)
- St Andrew (Rublev), iconographer (1430)