Scripture Readings
Saturday, April 3, 1993
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Fifth Saturday of Lent — Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-holy Theotokos. Ven. Niketas the Confessor, Abbot of Medikion (824). Virgin Martyr Theodosίa of Tyre, and Martyr Irene (307-308). St. Illyricus of Mt. Myrsinon in the Peloponnesus. Martyrs Elpidephorus, Dius, Bithonius, and Galycus. “Unfading Flower” Icon of the Mother of God .