Today, Great Saturday (19.4.2025) is the last day of the Great Week and the Great Lent.
On the morning of the Holy Saturday, the first resurrection is celebrated in the Church, that is, the evening of Easter, in which the “Anastas, God, Lyon of the Gen, is chanted, that in the sake of being.” At midnight on Good Saturday to Easter Sunday, the Resurrection of Christ, where Christ Anestis is chanted, is celebrated at the Orthodox formal formal, and then the Orthodox and Resurrected Divine Liturgy of Easter. It is the only Saturday of the year in which oil is fasting.
According to the calendar, the memory of Saint Theodore and the plus of these Philip, Dioscorus, Socrates and Dionysius are honored.
The names that celebrate today, according to the calendar, are:
Philip, Philippia, kisso
Saint Theodore the witness and the plus of these Philip, Dioskoros, Socrates and Dionysius
Saint Theodore lived in the years of King Antoninos (138-161) and ruler Theodotus. He came from Pergi, Pamphylia and was very pious. From his zeal for piety, he destroyed idols, pillars and pagan temples. But he was arrested and subjected to horrific torture. He was spread on a incandescent grill and then tied him behind wild horses, which dragged him to a long abnormal territorial distance. They then threw him into the firefin of fire, along with two soldiers who had believed in Christ, Socrates and Dionysius. They then imprisoned him and eventually crucified him and pierced him with arrows. And after three days of agonizing torture on the cross he handed his long soul.
St. Philippe, the mother of Saint Theodore, after the crucifixion of her Son, confessed to Christ as a true God and witnessed by swords.
Finally, Saint Dioscorus was a priest of idols in the years of King Anoninos (138-160) and came to the Christian faith through the miracles of Theodore and testified by fire.