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Saturday

3 Paremhat 1699

March 12, 1983

Litany Season: Air and Fruits

Saturday before the Great Fast

Special Observance

The Saturday before the Great Fast is the final Saturday before the beginning of Great Lent, marking the end of the preparatory period before the Lenten season of fasting and repentance.

Synaxarium

  • The Departure of St. Cosmas, the Fifty-Eighth Pope of Alexandria

    On this day of the year 648 A.M. (27th of February 932 A.D.) the blessed father Anba Cosmas, the Fifty-Eighth Pope of Alexandria, departed.

  • The Martyrdom of St. Porphyry

    On this day also St. Porphyry (Porphorius) was martyred. He was one of the most nobles of Banias, most charitable and caring for the poor.

  • The Departure of St. Hadid the priest

    On this day also, the blessed father and the lover of God Anba Hadid the priest departed.