Lazarus Saturday
Feast · lord
- Pascha − 8 (Eastern Orthodox Church)
The day before Palm Sunday, and the hinge of the Byzantine year: Great Lent has ended and Holy Week has not begun, so it belongs to neither. Rome has no equivalent, because in the West Holy Week is part of Lent.
After The Typikon, ch. 49, the Triodion — Lazarus Saturday, «Въ сꙋббѡ́тꙋ ст҃а́гѡ и҆ првⷣнагѡ ла́зарѧ», p. 875.
Commemorating
- Lazarus of Bethany commemorates
- Raising of Lazarus commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 49, the Triodion — Lazarus Saturday, «Въ сꙋббѡ́тꙋ ст҃а́гѡ и҆ првⷣнагѡ ла́зарѧ», p. 875
Glosses
- Three ways to count forty days Lent is forty days in every tradition and the same length in none of them. Rome runs Ash Wednesday to the evening of Holy Thursday — forty-four calendar days — and reaches forty by not counting the six Sundays, which…