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Today's feasts

July 2:

The Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos at Blachernae; Saint Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem; Saint Photius, Metropolitan of Kiev; Saint Juvenal, Protomartyr of America and Alaska (see also September 24 and December 12); Saint Stephen the Great of Romania; Saint Monegunda of Chartres (Gaul); Saint Oudoceos, Bishop of Llandaff; Saint Swithun, Bishop of Winchester; Martyr Koïntos of Phyrgia; new-martyrs of Samothrace; repose of Saint Job, first Patriarch of Moscow (see also April 5 and June 19); repose of Elder Zachariah of Moscow

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For the Orthodox Christian, Holy Week is the week from the conclusion of Great Lent on the Saturday of Lazarus to the celebration of the Great and Holy Pascha, the Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. This week is also often called the Great and Holy Week.

As leave is taken from Great Lent with the celebration of the Saturday of Lazarus, which remembers Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead and the promise of universal resurrection for all, a week is entered during which the church services remember Christ’s last week, the Holy Week, before his crucifixion and resurrection.

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