Scripture Readings

Friday, June 9, 2006

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Leavetaking of the Ascension. St. Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria (444). Ven. Cyril, Igoumen of White Lake (1427). Ven. Alexander, Abbot of Kushta (Vologdá—1439). Five Nuns beheaded in Persia: Martyrs Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Ennatha (346). St. Columba, Enlightener of Scotland (597).