Saints
- Great-martyr Irene of Thessaloniki (4th c.)
- Martyrs Irenaeus, Pellegrinus and Irene, at Thessaloniki (284–305)
- Martyrs Neophytus, Gaius, and Gaianus
- Saint Eulogius the Confessor, bishop of Edessa (ca. 386)
- Saints Martin and Heraclius, of Illyria (4th c.)
- Saint Euthymius the Wonderworker, bishop of Madytos on the Hellespont (ca. 990)
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