Saints
- Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria (305)
- Saint Papius of Hierapolis
- Venerable Thalassius, Limnaeus, and Barades, hermits of Syria (5th century)
- Venerable Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople (821)
- Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome (137)
- Saint Peter the Stylite of Mount Athos
- Russian new martyr Theoktista Michailovna, Fool-for-Christ of Voronezh (1936)
- Russian new martyr Michael Lisicin, priest (1918)
- Martyrs Anthusa and her 12 servants
- Saint Blaise, bishop
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