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Friday April 17, 2026 / April 4, 2026

Bright Friday.

Bright Week. Fast-free

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  • Bright Week

Saints

  1. "Life- giving Spring" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). primary
  2. Commemoration of the renewal (sanctification) of the Holy Theotokos temple near the Life-giving Spring in Constantinople (5th c.) (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). primary
  3. "Pochaev" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week). primary
  4. Venerable Joseph the Hymnographer of Sicily (883). primary
  5. Venerable George, monk, of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus (9th c.). primary
  6. The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth (movable Feast on March 30. If March 30 should fall between Lazarus Saturday and Pascha, however, the Feast is transferred to Bright Friday).
  7. Venerable Joseph the Muchailing of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).
  8. Venerable Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk (1550).
  9. Venerable Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (560).
  10. Virgin-martyr Pherbutha of Persia, her sister and servants (343).
  11. New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Benjamin (Kononov) and Hieromonk Nicephorus (Kuchin) of Solovki (1928).
  12. Virgin-martyr Mary (1932).
  13. New Hieromartyr Nicholas bishop of Velsk (1933).
  14. New Hieromartyr John priest (1933).
  15. Martyr John (1943).
  16. Icons of the Mother of God, named "Gerontissa" and "Deliveress".
  17. New Hieromartyr Nicetas the Serb of Albania, Mt. Athos and Serres (1808).
  18. Venerable Theonas, metropolitan of Thessalonica (1541).
  19. St. Isidore, bishop of Seville (636).
  20. Holy Martyr Kallinikos.
  21. Venerable James of Old Torzhok in Galich, Kostroma (15th-16th c.).
  22. Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1602).

Scripture

  • Acts 3:1-8
  • Philippians 2:5-11
  • John 2:12-22
  • Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28