Saints
- Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia at Nicomedia, and 200 martyrs with them (303-311)
- St. Pinytus, bishop of Knossos in Crete (2nd century)
- Martyrs of the Theban Legion along the Rhine (286)
- Martyr Theotecnus of Antioch (3rd-4th century)
- St. Bassian of Constantinople (c. 458)
- St Theophilus the Confessor of Bulgaria (716)
- Synaxis of the Seven Saints of Volhynia: Sts. Stephen and Amphilocius (1122), Bishops of Vladimir in Volhynia; St. Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius), prince of Ostrog (1483); St. Juliana Olshansk (1540); St. Job of Pochaev (1651); Hieromartyr Macarius of Kanev, archimandrite of Obruch and Pinsk (1678); and St. Yaropolk-Peter, prince of Vladimir in Volhynia (1086)
- Martyrdom of the 26 Martyrs of Zographou Monastery on Mount Athos by the Latins (1284)
- Blessed Andrew of Totma (Vologda), fool-for-Christ (1673)
- St. Innocent, bishop of Penza (1819)
- Venerable Ambrose of Optina (1891)
- Saint Paulinus, Archbishop of York (644)
- New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeyevsky), archbishop of Volokolamsk (1937)
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“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 4:11.
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