Scripture Readings

Friday, April 16, 1993

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Great and Holy Friday. Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia, in Illyria (304). Martyrs Leonidas, Chariessa, Nice (Nika, Victoria), Galina, Kalista (Kalisa), Nunechia, Basilissa, Theodora, and Irene, of Corinth (258). Monastic Martyr Christopher of Dionysiou (Mt. Athos—1818). Hieromartyr Nikḗtas. The Weeping “IL’INSKO-CHERNIGOV” (1658) and the TAMBOV Icons of the Mother of God (1658).