Scripture Readings
Sunday, February 16, 1997
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
SUNDAY OF THE PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE — Tone 4. Beginning of the Lenten Triodion. Martyrs Pamphilius—Presbyter, Valens—Deacon, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel, at Cæsarea in Palestine (307-309). St. Maruthas, Bishop of Martyropolis in Mesopotamia (422). Persian Martyrs in Martyropolis in Mesopotamia (4th c.).