Scripture Readings
Saturday, August 19, 20243
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Fourth Saturday of Lent — Memorial Saturday. Afterfeast of the Dormition. Martyr Andrew Stratelates and those with him (2,593 soldiers) in Cilicia (4th c.). St. Pitirim, Bishop of Perm (1456). Martyrs Timothy, Agapius, and Thekla, of Palestine (304-306). Ven. Theophanes of Docheiariou (Mt. Athos—16th c.). Don Icon of the Mother of God (in commemoration of the deliverance of Moscow from the Tatars in 1591).