Jun 18 2020 7:00 am
Commemoration of Ss. Mark & Marcellianus, Martyrs.
Proper on pages 1308, 1032, 1009, 730. Common Preface on page 886.
St. Ephrem of Nisibis in Mesopotamia was cast forth from his home by his father, a pagan priest. At first he lived as a hermit; he was later ordained a Deacon of Edessa and became renowned as a poet, an orator, and a holy monk. He died A.D. 379.
