Saints
- Venerable Symeon Stylites the Younger of Wonderful Mountain (c.592)
- Martyrs Meletius Stratelates, Stephen, John, and 1218 soldiers with women and children, including:
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- Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the former Magician, Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna, and Palladia, two children Cyriacus and Christian; and
- Twelve tribunes: Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, and Didymus — all of whom suffered in Galatia (c.138-161)
- Saint Kyriakos of Evrychou, in Cyprus, the Wonderworker.
- Nun-martyr Martha, abbess of Monemvasia (990)
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