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
- Venerable Theodora of Alexandria
- Translation of the Relics of Venerable Sergius and Herman
- Demetrios & Evanthea the Martyrs & their son Demetrianos
- St Euphrosynos the Cook of Alexandria (9th c.)
- St Paphnutius the Confessor (4th c.)
- Canonization of St Xenia of St Petersburg (1978)
- St Silouan, elder of Mount Athos (1938) (September 11 OC)