Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)

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Eastern Orthodox feast day liturgical feast moveable feast pre-Palm Sunday celebration

Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox) is a pre-Palm Sunday liturgical celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church commemorating Christ’s raising of Lazarus as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Lazarus Saturday (general Christian usage)	1
Lazarus Saturday in Byzantine tradition	1
Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox) canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4728423 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)
Context triple: [Lazarus of Bethany, feastDay, Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)]

A. Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday is the Christian observance between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, commemorating Jesus Christ’s body resting in the tomb and marking the final day of Holy Week.
B. Pentecostarion
The Pentecostarion is an Eastern Christian liturgical book used in the Byzantine Rite that contains the hymns and services for the period from Easter (Pascha) through the Sunday after Pentecost.
C. Resurrection Sunday
Resurrection Sunday is a Christian holy day celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed each year on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
D. Midnight Office of Pascha
The Midnight Office of Pascha is an Orthodox Christian liturgical service celebrated late on Holy Saturday night as a solemn and anticipatory prelude to the Paschal (Easter) Divine Liturgy.
E. Dormition Fast
The Dormition Fast is a two-week period of fasting and spiritual preparation in Eastern Christianity leading up to the feast commemorating the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)
Target entity description: Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox) is a pre-Palm Sunday liturgical celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church commemorating Christ’s raising of Lazarus as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection.

A. Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday is the Christian observance between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, commemorating Jesus Christ’s body resting in the tomb and marking the final day of Holy Week.
B. Pentecostarion
The Pentecostarion is an Eastern Christian liturgical book used in the Byzantine Rite that contains the hymns and services for the period from Easter (Pascha) through the Sunday after Pentecost.
C. Resurrection Sunday
Resurrection Sunday is a Christian holy day celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, observed each year on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
D. Midnight Office of Pascha
The Midnight Office of Pascha is an Orthodox Christian liturgical service celebrated late on Holy Saturday night as a solemn and anticipatory prelude to the Paschal (Easter) Divine Liturgy.
E. Dormition Fast
The Dormition Fast is a two-week period of fasting and spiritual preparation in Eastern Christianity leading up to the feast commemorating the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Eastern Orthodox feast day ⓘ liturgical feast ⓘ moveable feast ⓘ pre-Palm Sunday celebration ⓘ
associatedFigure	Lazarus of Bethany ⓘ Martha of Bethany ⓘ linked to: Saint Martha Mary of Bethany ⓘ
associatedWith	Holy Week ⓘ
calendar	Gregorian calendar (in some Orthodox Churches) ⓘ linked to: Gregorian calendar (Western churches) Julian calendar ⓘ Revised Julian calendar ⓘ
commemorates	miracle of Christ in Bethany ⓘ raising of Lazarus ⓘ
custom	baking of special breads in some Orthodox cultures ⓘ children’s first communion in some local traditions ⓘ processions with palm branches or pussy willows in some regions ⓘ
dateRule	Saturday before Palm Sunday ⓘ
follows	Friday of the Sixth Week of Great Lent ⓘ
foreshadows	Resurrection of Christ ⓘ linked to: resurrection of Jesus Christ
hymnographySource	Lenten Triodion canons and stichera ⓘ
languageVariant	Church Slavonic: Лазарева суббота ⓘ Greek: Σάββατο του Λαζάρου ⓘ
liturgicalBook	Lenten Triodion ⓘ linked to: Triodion
liturgicalColor	festal ⓘ
liturgicalCycle	Paschal cycle ⓘ
liturgicalPractice	Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom ⓘ Great Vespers on Friday evening ⓘ festal Orthros (Matins) ⓘ
liturgicalRank	great feast of the Lord (in practice, though not one of the Twelve) ⓘ
liturgicalSeason	Great Lent ⓘ linked to: Lent Triodion period ⓘ linked to: Triodion
marks	transition from Great Lent to Holy Week ⓘ
observedBy	Antiochian Orthodox Church ⓘ Coptic Orthodox Church (Byzantine-rite communities) ⓘ linked to: Coptic Orthodox Church Greek Orthodox Church ⓘ Romanian Orthodox Church ⓘ Russian Orthodox Church ⓘ Serbian Orthodox Church ⓘ
pairedWith	Palm Sunday ⓘ
precedes	Palm Sunday ⓘ
relatedConcept	Lazarus Saturday (general Christian usage) ⓘ linked to: Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)
relatedTo	Feast of the Resurrection (Pascha) ⓘ linked to: Feast of Pascha
religiousTradition	Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine rite ⓘ linked to: Eastern Catholic Churches Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ linked to: Eastern Orthodox Christianity
scripturalReading	Epistle to the Hebrews 12:28–13:8 (Byzantine lectionary) ⓘ linked to: Letter to the Hebrews Gospel of John 11:1–45 ⓘ
theologicalTheme	Christ as Resurrection and Life ⓘ confirmation of universal resurrection ⓘ preparation for Passion of Christ ⓘ victory over death ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lazarus of Bethany → feastDay → Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox) ⓘ

Great Fast in Eastern Christianity → endsBefore → Lazarus Saturday in Byzantine tradition ⓘ

linked to: Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)

Saturday of Lazarus → relatedConcept → Lazarus Saturday (general Christian usage) ⓘ

subject linked to: Saturday of Lazarus (Eastern Orthodox)