Scripture Readings
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
First Saturday of Great Lent — Commemoration of St. Theodore the Recruit and the Miracle of the Boiled Wheat. St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (638-644). St. Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod (1458). Hieromartyrs Pionius and Limnus of Smyrna and those with them: Asclepiades, Macedonia, and Sabina (250). Translation of the Relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium. St. Sophronius, Bishop of Vracha (Bulgaria—1813). Ven. Sophronii, Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th c.).