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Wednesday, 26 May 2027

13 May 2027 on the Old calendar

  • Wednesday of the 4th week after Pascha. Mid-Pentecost
  • Mozdok and Dubensky-Krasnohorská (17th C) Icons of the Mother of God (movable feast at Mid-Pentecost)

Liturgical colour: red

Saints of the day

  • Great Martyr George the New at Sofia, Bulgaria († 1515)
  • Apostles of the Seventy Carpus and Alphæus (1st C)
  • Holy Martyrs Abercius and Helen (1st C)
  • St. John Psichaita the Confessor, of Constantinople (9th C)
  • Finding of the relics (1521) of the Venerable Macarius the Abbot of Kalyazin
  • New Martyr Alexander of Thessaloniki († 1794)
  • St. Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England († c. 605)

Fasting

Fish allowed

Fish, wine and oil are fine; no meat, dairy or eggs.

Fasting is personal; ask your priest.

Readings

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