Saints
- Saint Tikhon of Amathus in Cyprus, bishop (5th century)
- Venerable Tikhon of Kaluga (1492)
- Saint Tikhon of Luchov (1503)
- Saint Tikhon of Krestogorsk in Vologda
- Martyrs Tigrius and Eutropius of Constantinople (5th century)
- Saint Mark the Just of Apollonia, nephew of the Apostle Barnabas
- Martyr Hermogenes of Tobolsk (Germogen), bishop (1918)
- Saint Moses of Optina, founder of the Optina Skete
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